Robert Bork Politician

Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork served as a Yale Law School professor, Solicitor General, Acting Attorney General, and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1987, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but the Senate rejected his nomination. Bork had more success as an antitrust scholar, where his once-idiosyncratic view that antitrust law should focus on maximizing consumer welfare has come to dominate American legal thinking on the subject.

Personal facts

Robert Bork
Birth dateMarch 01, 1927
Birth place
Pennsylvania , Pittsburgh , United States
Religion
Catholic Church
Date of deathDecember 19, 2012
Place of death
Virginia , Arlington County Virginia , United States
Education
University of Chicago
Spouse
Mary Ellen Pohl

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Office holder

office
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
United States Attorney General
United States Solicitor General
party
Republican Party (United States)
president
successor

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External resources

  1. http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/76471-1/Robert+Bork.aspx
  2. http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/pubid.332/pub_detail.asp
  3. http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=3946
  4. http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/bio_1054.html
  5. http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj/vol47/iss1/1
  6. http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/348_1987.pdf