HARVARD LAW REVIEW — Charles Fried was a scholar, a teacher, a public servant, and a good friend of mine. He was widely read, both within and beyond the law. He sought always to get to the bottom of a subject, whether contracts, criminal law, or the law itself. But he was not just a theoretician. As a fine Solicitor General and a thoughtful justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, he understood also how law worked in practice.