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1 month ago | 
harvardlawreview.org | Stephen Breyer |Alana Frederick |Thomas Nielsen
On March 3, 2025, the Harvard Law Review hosted Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Kevin Newsom, Alana Frederick, and Thomas Nielsen (HLR ’26) for a discussion on statutory and constitutional interpretation. That conversation is reproduced in this transcript. Otto Barenberg: Welcome, everyone. Good afternoon. I’m Otto Barenberg, the Articles, Book Reviews, and Commentaries Chair for Volume 139 at the Harvard Law Review.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
harvardlawreview.org | Stephen Breyer
For more than forty years, I have served as a federal judge — about fourteen years on a court of appeals, and twenty-eight years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Judges of these courts often interpret words that appear in statutes or in the Constitution, explaining what they mean and how they apply. When I explain to a group of middle-school students what this job is like, I use an example I found in a French newspaper.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
taxprof.typepad.com | Paul Caron |Stephen Breyer
Bloomberg Law, Breyer Discloses $246,526 Salary for Harvard Law School Teaching:Retired Justice Stephen Breyer received nearly a quarter of a million dollars for teaching at his alma mater Harvard Law School in 2023, according to his latest financial disclosure report. The 86-year-old jurist has taught at Harvard Law School since his retirement in 2022, after 28 years on the high court.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Stephen Breyer |James Rogers |James Hankins |David Schaefer
My Law & Liberty colleague John McGinnis observed regarding Stephen Breyer’s 2024 book, Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism, that one need not “be a rigid textualist” to conclude Breyer’s theory of statutory and constitutional interpretation “ultimately unpersuasive.” McGinnis’s point is entirely correct.
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May 18, 2024 | 
poetryinamerica.org | Martin Espada |Steven Allardi |Stephen Breyer |Jill Lepore
Long before he won the National Book Award, Martín Espada worked after school in a factory making legal pads. Espada, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, economists Natasha Sarin, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers, historian Jill Lepore, and actor John Turturro join Elisa New to reflect on social mobility, and what connects manual labor with the raw materials of poetry and law. Interested in learning more?
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Stephen Breyer
This essay is adapted from my Robert B. Silvers Lecture at the New York Public Library earlier this year, which was drawn from my Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism (Simon and Schuster, 2024). The lecture and essay, like the book on which they are based, contain no revelations of private information, including within the Court or at conference.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
audible.com | Nicholas Shakespeare |Stephen Breyer |Gary Bass |Mary Beard
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Stephen Breyer
SI JUECES QUE DISCREPAN A UN NIVEL TAN PROFUNDO PUEDEN HACERLO CON TANTO RESPETO, TAL VEZ ES POSIBLE QUE NUESTRO PAÍS, CON SUS DIVISIONES POLÍTICAS, HAGA LO MISMO. Hace poco, las juezas de la Corte Suprema Sonia Sotomayor y Amy Coney Barrett hablaron juntas en público sobre cómo los miembros de la Corte hablan con cordialidad entre sí mientras discrepan, a veces con vehemencia, sobre la ley.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Stephen Breyer
Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law. Considerable disagreement on professional matters among the Supreme Court justices, important as they are, remain professional, not personal. The members of the court can and do get along well personally. That matters.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Stephen Breyer |John O. McGinnis |Julia Cartwright |James Hankins
Nothing has improved Steven Breyer’s legal theory work so much as leaving the Supreme Court. His two books of scholarship as a justice were busts. Active Liberty claimed that the Court should shape its jurisprudence to advance democracy. But most of what was interesting about that proposition had already been stated more eloquently and persuasively by John Hart Ely in his brilliant book, Democracy and Distrust.
