Stephen G. Breyer was born August 15, 1938, in San Francisco. He was graduated from Stanford University in 1959 and traveled to Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship where he received a B.A. from Magdalen College in 1961. Breyer earned an LL.B from Harvard Law School in 1964. He served as a law clerk for Associate Justice Arthur J. Goldberg of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1964 Term. From 1965 to 1967 Breyer worked in the U.S. Department of Justice as a special assistant to the Assistant U.S. Attorney for Antitrust, Donald F. Turner. In 1967 Breyer began his academic career at Harvard Law School, where he taught until 1994. He also taught at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government from 1977-1980. In 1973 Breyer returned to Washington, D.C., as an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation. He stayed on for the following two years as special counsel to the Administrative Practices Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1979 he served for two years as chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. President Jimmy Carter appointed Breyer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1980 and he became its Chief Judge in 1990. He served as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission from 1985-1989. The following year Breyer became a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States. On May 14, 1994, President Bill Clinton nominated Breyer Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He took the oath of office on August 3, 1994.
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A Conversation on the Constitution with Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia
The Capital Hilton1001 16th St NW
Washington, DC 20036
Panel I: Agency Autonomy and the Unitary Executive [Archive Collection]
The Presidency and Congress
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
Equality vs. Discretion in Sentencing [Archive Collection]
Second Annual National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
Panel I: Agency Autonomy and the Unitary Executive [Archive Collection]
The Presidency and Congress
On January 19-20, 1990, The Federalist Society hosted a conference at the Mayflower Hotel in...
Panel I: Agency Autonomy and the Unitary Executive [Archive Collection]
The Presidency and Congress
On January 19-20, 1990, The Federalist Society hosted a conference at the Mayflower Hotel in...
Equality vs. Discretion in Sentencing [Archive Collection]
Second Annual National Lawyers Convention
On September 9-10, 1988, The Federalist Society hosted its second annual National Lawyers Convention at...
Equality vs. Discretion in Sentencing [Archive Collection]
Second Annual National Lawyers Convention
On September 9-10, 1988, The Federalist Society hosted its second annual National Lawyers Convention at...
A Conversation on the Constitution with Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia
A Conversation on the Constitution: Perspectives from Active Liberty and A Matter of Interpretation ...