At Harvard was now a colleague of Archibald Cox , his boss in the Solicitor General 's office . Their political impulses were roughly the same . Heymann joined Cox and most of the Law School faculty , for instance , in an open letter to Congress , urging an end to the Vietnam war at the height of student unrest following the Kent State shootings . Cox , unlike Heymann , however , refused to involve himself in the politics of the Supreme Court . Heymann collaborated with Cox in drafting the '' amicus curiae '' brief to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on behalf of the American Mutual Assurance Alliance and the American Insurance Association , in support of the constitutionality of Massachusetts 's no-fault insurance scheme , a piece of legislation with a decided Harvard connection
Kent State shootings
Kent State shootings
Philip Heymann