Stephen Breyer

Author of Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution

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About the Author

Stephen Breyer is an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He has written several books including Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View and The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities. (Bowker Author Biography)

Includes the names: Stephen Breyer, Stephen G. Breyer

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Supreme Court Portrait)

Series

Sunnylands Seminars

Works by Stephen Breyer

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Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (2005) 406 copies, 7 reviews

Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View (2010) 294 copies, 6 reviews

The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities (2015) 154 copies, 2 reviews

Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism (2024) 90 copies, 1 review

The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics (2021) 43 copies

Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases (1992) 38 copies, 1 review

Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation (1993) 36 copies, 1 review

Against the Death Penalty (2016) 29 copies

Our Constitution: A Conversation [videorecording] (2005) 27 copies

Regulation and Its Reform (1982) 26 copies

America's Supreme Court: Making Democracy Work (2010) 8 copies

We Dissent: Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan on Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court's Decision Banning Abortion (2022) 8 copies

Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Resegregation of America's Schools (2022) 4 copies

Judges in Contemporary Democracy: An International Conversation (2004) — Editor — 4 copies

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 3 (2022) 3 copies

Economic Reasoning and Judicial Review (2004) 3 copies

Judicial Activism: Power Without Responsibility? 2 copies

Interpréter la constitution américaine: La lettre ou l'esprit 1 copy

Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: 2009-2010 Case Supplement (2009) 1 copy

The Cherokee Indians and the Supreme Court 1 copy

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Associated Works

Bush v. Gore: the Court Cases and the Commentary (2001) — Contributor — 52 copies, 1 review

Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence (1997) — Contributor — 17 copies

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Birthdate: 1938-08-15
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Places of residence: San Francisco, California, USA
Education: Stanford University (B.A.|Philosophy)
Harvard Law School (LL.B.)
Lowell High School, San Francisco, California (1955)
University of Oxford (Magdalen College|B.A.|Philosophy, Politics and Economics)
Occupations: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1994- )
attorney
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1980-1994)
law professor
Organizations: Supreme Court of the United States (Associate Justice, 1994- )

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Reviews

Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism,… by Stephen Breyer

Clear and thoughtful; every court-watcher should read this

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JosephKing6602 | Jun 3, 2024 |

Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic… by Stephen Breyer

author is Supreme Court justice

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pollycallahan | 6 other reviews | Jul 1, 2023 |

Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic… by Stephen Breyer

2/27/22

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laplantelibrary | 6 other reviews | Feb 27, 2022 |

Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic… by Stephen Breyer

It’s a good book and I hope his replacement on the Supreme Court reads it. _targeted more to lawyers, but readable and generally understandable for non-lawyers. Good footnote references to cases for those who want to dive a little deeper.

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Michael_Lilly | 6 other reviews | Jan 29, 2022 |

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