Word: bator
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deputy Solicitor General, Paul M. Bator, Bromley Professor of Law, will prepare and present cases to the Supreme Court, and will help devise legal strategy for the federal government...
Solicitor General Rex Lee said yesterday that his office sought Bator after the position opened up earlier this year because "he is one of the leading legal scholars in the country." Lee added that Bator has demonstrated that he concurs with President Reagan's views that the federal courts have overstepped their bounds in taking on too many state court cases...
...addition to his deputy post, Bator will serve as counselor to Lee and consequently one of two top aides in the Solicitor General's office. The Solicitor General, whose chief responsibility is to present the federal government's case before the Supreme Court, is the fourth ranking official in the Justice Department...
...Bator, who has had little actual litigation experience, said yesterday he is taking the job chiefly to further his academic work. "I am a student of the Supreme Court, and this gives me an opportunity to study that in a different context," he explained...
Shortly after graduation in 1956 from the Law School--where he was president of the Law Review--Bator clerked for Supreme Court Justice John Harlan. He became a full professor at Harvard five years later and has since gained national prominence for his work, which included authoring the basic text used in law schools on federal jurisdiction...