Lewis Sargentich
Lewis Daniel "Lew" Sargentich (b. 1944), frequently referred to simply as "Sarge", has been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1973 where he teaches courses tort law and jurisprudence. Sargentich is well known for his record as a student at Harvard Law School, where he both named and first analyzed the First Amendment "overbreadth doctrine" in a student note. He graduated summa cum laude. He co-authored the popular tort law casebook Tort and Accident Law: Cases and Materials with Gregory Keating and Robert Keeton. Biography Early life He grew up in Alhambra, California, and is the son of Peggy and Daniel Sargentich, a first-generation American. His brother, Thomas O. Sargentich, was a professor at American University School of law. He also has two sisters, Sue Sargentich and Karen Sargentich Stafford. He attended Alhambra High School, where he was an acclaimed student orator. He won both the prestigious National Forensic League Boys Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking tournament and the Lions Club National Speaker Contest in 1961. He then attended and graduated from Occidental College, Sussex University, where he was a Marshall Scholar in 1965, and Harvard Law School. Sargentich was one of only eight Harvard Law School students to receive the