Stephen Breyer
- An Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court
Personal History
Family
- Born August 15, 1938
Education
- Stanford University, B.A. Philosophy
- Magdalen College, Oxford, B.A.
- Harvard Law School, LLB
Career
- 1964 Law clerk to Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg
- 1965 - 1967 Special Assistant to the United States Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust
- 1967 - 1994 Taught at Harvard Law School
- 1973 Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force
- 1974 - 1975 Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- 1979 - 1980 Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- 1980 - 1994 United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- Nominated by President Jimmy Carter
- Confirmed on December 9, 1980 (80-10)
- Received commission on December 10, 1980
- 1994 - 2022 United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
- Nominated by President Bill Clinton, May 17, 1994
- Confirmed on July 29, 1994 (87-9)
- Received commission on August 3, 1994
- Replaced Harry Blackmun
- Retirement announced January 27, 2022.
Supreme Court decisions:
- Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (Sided with Majority)
- Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 US_ (2015) (Sided with Majority)
- Packingham v. North Carolina (Sided with Majority)
- Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (Sided with concurring opinion)
- Epic Systems v. Lewis (2016) (Sided with dissenting opinion)
- Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 2 (2013) (Sided with dissenting opinion)
Media
Publications
- Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation
- Regulation and Its Reform
- "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Study of Copyright in Books, Photocopies, and Computer Programs" Harvard Law Review 1970
- Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution 2005
- Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View 2010
- The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities 2015