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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 27, 2015

Daniel Meltzer, a Harvard Law School professor who served briefly as a top legal adviser to President Barack Obama, died Sunday (May 24). He was 63. Meltzer had served on the Harvard Law faculty since 1982 as an expert on federal courts and criminal procedure. He took a leave of absence from 2009 to 2010 to serve as the principal deputy counsel to the president. During his time in the administration he was key player on the Affordable Care Act, national security matters and preparation of U.S. Supreme Court appointees, the Associated Press reports in the Bristol Herald Courier.