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Stephen Breyer

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August 15, 1938 in San Francisco, California, The United States

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Stephen Gerald Breyer is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1994, and known for his pragmatic approach to constitutional law, Breyer is generally associated with the more liberal side of the Court.

Following a clerkship with Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg in 1964, Breyer became well-known as a law professor and lecturer at Harvard Law School starting in 1967. There he specialized in the area of administrative law, writing a number of influential text books that remain in use today. He held other prominent positions before being nominated for the Supreme Court, including special assistant to the United States Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, and assistant...more

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Books by Stephen Breyer

Average rating: 3.35 · 362 ratings · 89 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution 3.30 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View 3.44 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases by Stephen Breyer, Adrian Vermeule, Cass R. Sunstein 2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	America's Supreme Court: Making Democracy Work 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Regulation and Its Reform 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1982 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	My rating:
	Through the Eyes of a Judge 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Administrative Law & Regulatory Policy: 2009 2010 Case Supplement 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence by Stephen Breyer, Fern M. Smith (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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“The Court has a special responsibility to ensure that the Constitution works in practice. While education, including the transmission of our civic values from one generation to the next, must play the major role in maintaining public confidence in the Court's decisions, the Court too must help maintain public acceptance of its own legitimacy. It can do this best by helping ensure that the Constitution remains "workable" in a broad sense of the term. Specifically, it can and should interpret the Constitution in a way that works for the people of today.”
― Stephen Breyer, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View

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The History Book ...: #108 - ASSOCIATE JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER	2	6	Nov 13, 2011 01:40pm
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The History Book ...: THE CONSTITUTION	122	154	May 17, 2012 06:25am

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