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Justice Black told Professor Calabresi that he had to defer to his friend's veto for that year but that he would consider me for the following year. This was the best possible news because it allowed me to accept a clerkship with Judge Davi...

but it was more about style than substance. He really pushed hard to get Justice Black to select me.

my chutzpah was not welcome by all the professors. Professor Fritz Kessler

especially with regard to desegregation. In college I had joined the NAACP and had participated in a bus protest to Washington. In my second summer at law school I went to Howard University in Washington and trained to become a civil rights...

such as economics and science—both physical and social. I worked as a research assistant on Professor Calabresi’s groundbreaking article on law and economics

rumors began to circulate that Taylor was being considered to head the C.I.A. He took me aside one day after class and asked me

who combined an active constitutional law practice with teaching and writing. Although we could not have been more different in background and bearing—he was a tall

but in a rather different way was Alex Bickel

I wrote two articles for the law journal—one about attempted murder

I developed an interest in writing academic articles. At Brooklyn College

a Harvard education and a Yale degree. (I now have what I think is the best of both worlds

I served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. I was the first orthodox Jew to serve in that capacity

one of whose ancestors was the President of the United States and the Chief Justice; another a senator from Ohio and the third the mayor of Cincinnati. It is fair to say at that time that Taft was one of the most prominent names in America....

near where my family had lived. My class contained lots of students with famous names—William Brennan

I had Professor Guido Calabresi as a teacher. It was his first year of teaching. When I came home for the Jewish holidays

I got married to a woman I had met in a Jewish summer camp that boasted of the many “shidachs” (meetings that resulted in marriages) for which it was responsible. I was not yet 21. Sue was 19. My mother wouldn’t let me go to an out of town....

I got into all the law schools to which I applied. I chose Yale

the king of Saudi Arabia was a state visitor. In his honor

as we all did. We called it “Knight House” and our boastful Latin slogan was “semil equis satis”—“once a knight is enough.” Since we were all orthodox Jews

which was very respectable in those days before grade inflation. They didn’t want me to get A’s because A students became teachers