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

Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View (2010) 283 copies

The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities (2015) 148 copies

Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism (2024) 42 copies

The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics (2021) 40 copies

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

Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases (1992) 36 copies

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

Regulation and Its Reform (1982) 26 copies

Against the Death Penalty (2016) 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… (2022) 8 copies

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

Economic Reasoning and Judicial Review (2004) 3 copies

Against Segregation in America's Schools (2022) 3 copies

Judicial Activism: Power Without Responsibility? 2 copies

Making Our Democracy Work - A Judge's View 2 copies

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 3 (Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics, 2) (2022) 2 copies

L'autorite de la cours supreme au peril de la politique: Juge a la cour supreme des Etats-Unis 1 copy

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

Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases [Connected eBook with Study Center] (Aspen… (2022) 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

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

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Common Knowledge

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

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

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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 |

Active Liberty : Interpreting Our Democratic… by Stephen Breyer

Based on the "Tanner Lectures" at Harvard University in 2004, this book discusses constitutional law and liberty under the law. Breyer promulgates a concept entitled "active liberty" which presumably allows the law to maintain a pace with the changes in society and culture over time. I'm not sure that this is something that we should applaud.

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jwhenderson | 6 other reviews | Jan 27, 2022 |

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