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” the friend conceded “maybe in the United States

Kronheim was standing on the White House balcony with JFK

in the midst of the Kennedy Administration. Although Judge David Bazelon was a court of appeals judge—early in my clerkship he became Chief Judge—he was at the center of Washington life

was the personal impact they both had on my life. Each was to serve as a mentor

criminal law and freedom of speech cases were decided during my tenure as a law clerk. It was a period of liberal judicial activism—the Zenith (or for those more admiring of judicial restraint

but I also wanted--indeed I felt I needed--the status that came along with a Supreme Court clerkship in order to obtain the kind of job offers I would be seeking after finishing my clerkships. Two of my other mentors at law school

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