Raoul Berger (1901 – 2000) was an attorney and professor at Harvard University.
He was born in the Russian Ukraine and migrated to the U.S. when a child. He first pursued studies as a concert violinist at the Institute of Musical Art in New York but switched to a study of law in his early 30s, graduating at age 35 from Northwestern University School of Law. He practiced law in Chicago, and later worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission a...
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Raoul Berger (1901 – 2000) was an attorney and professor at Harvard University.
He was born in the Russian Ukraine and migrated to the U.S. when a child. He first pursued studies as a concert violinist at the Institute of Musical Art in New York but switched to a study of law in his early 30s, graduating at age 35 from Northwestern University School of Law. He practiced law in Chicago, and later worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission and as special assistant to the U.S. attorney general and general counsel to the alien property custodian during World War II. Berger began teaching law at the University of California at Berkeley in 1962 and was the Charles Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History at Harvard University from 1971 to 1976.
His notable work was in the area of constitutional scholarship. Berger has written extensively about the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
His publications include:
Berger was a popular academic critic of the...
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