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Charles Rembar (March 12, 1915 – October 24, 2000) was an American attorney best known as a First Amendment rights lawyer.
Rembar founded the law firm of Rembar & Curtis, which represented writers such as Louise Erdrich, Tom Clancy, Herman Wouk, and Norman Mailer, both as lawyers and often as literary agents.
First Amendment cases
In 1959, Grove Press published an unexpurgated version of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence. The U.S. Post Office confiscated copies sent through the mail. Rembar, working for Grove Press, sued the New York city postmaster and won in New York and then on federal appeal. Subsequently, he defended Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and John Cleland's Fanny Hill the latter argued before the U.S. Supreme Court which played a major role in changing the nation's approach to obscenity.
Books
In 1968, he published a book documenting the trials called The End of Obscenity: The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill, which won a George Polk Award in journalism. In 1975, he published a collection of wide-ranging essays titled Perspective. In 1980 he wrote The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System, a general history of the evolution of law, written for the non-lawyer and non-historian.
Death
He died in the Bronx, New York City, on October 24, 2000.
Categories: 1915 Births, 2000 Deaths, Columbia Law School Alumni, Harvard University Alumni, American Legal Writers, American Legal Historians, People From Long Branch, New Jersey, People From Oceanport, New Jersey, 20th-century American Historians, 20th-century American Lawyers, 20th-century American Non-fiction Writers
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