Robert H. Bork (1927–2012)
Autor/a de Slouching towards Gomorrah
Sobre l'autor
Robert H. Bork is the John M. Olin Scholar in Legal Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Crèdit de la imatge: Wikipedia (U.S. Dept. of Justice Photo)
Obres de Robert H. Bork
Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General (2013) 31 exemplars
Donor intent: interpreting the founder's vision 1 exemplars
Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law (The Francis Boyer Lectures on Public Policy) (1984) 1 exemplars
A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault on American Values (Hoover Institution Press Publication) 1 exemplars
Civil Liberties after 9/11 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House (2004) — Col·laborador — 146 exemplars
Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts (2007) — Col·laborador — 48 exemplars
Lengthened Shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-First Century (2004) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (1995) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Bork, Robert Heron
- Data de naixement
- 1927-03-01
- Data de defunció
- 2012-12-19
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Educació
- Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut
University of Chicago (B.A.|1948)
University of Chicago Law School (J.D.|1953) - Professions
- lawyer
professor
jurist
United States Attorney General (1973-1974|Acting)
United States Solicitor General (1973-1977)
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1982-1988) - Organitzacions
- Illinois Bar Association
Washington, D.C. Bar Association
University of Chicago
Yale Law School
US Marine Corps
US Department of Justice (mostra-les totes 16)
US Court of Appeals
American Enterprise Institute
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Netscape
Hudson Institute
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
American Enterprise Institute
Richard Nixon administration (1973-1974)
Gerald R. Ford administration (1974-1977)
Phi Gamma Delta - Premis i honors
- Phi Beta Kappa
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Francis Boyer Award (1984)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Red Books (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 13
- També de
- 7
- Membres
- 1,759
- Popularitat
- #14,631
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 12
- ISBN
- 41
- Llengües
- 1
- Preferit
- 3
One, Bork's weak attempt to reconcile his originalist approach and Brown v Board of Education. You can just feel on the page that he knows his views and the decision don't go together, but he (from either personal conviction or political necessity) still tries to scramble together a way to make them seem harmonious. It's such a gaping hole in the book that is always there, no matter what he is writing about.
Second, his inability to admit his personal biases and how they could ever influence his decisions. The best example is the long passage where he attacks the idea of a right to privacy that protects gay sex. I am not going to debate his legal view on that, but I will point out that he -- consciously or not -- slips moralistic, extra-judicial comments into, what he professes to be, a neutral application of legal reasoning. For example, he attacks the view that gay sex is a "victimless crime" that causes harm to no one. He writes that "we" know that is not the case. Who is we? By what proof do we know? Bork doesn't answer. He just leaves the clearly homophobic (what else can you call it?) line dangling there. With all his pretensions of sage, neutral legal analysis, that he says is never influenced by his own personal moral compass, he was clearly blind in situations like this. His obvious moral disapproval of same sex relations was so natural to him, that he couldn't see he was letting it seep into his supposed neutral, textual analysis. This is a damning sin when the entire book rails against what he sees as liberal judges letting their morality influence their reasoning.… (més)