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Late last month Congressman Richardson Preyer of North Carolina appeared before a congressional committee to discuss his school-integration bill and was frank to admit that Professor Bickel had drafted...
Warren Court Critic. During his 14 years on the Yale faculty, Bickel has exasperated colleagues who have praised the accomplishments of the Warren Court. A former law clerk to Justice Frankfurter, Bickel insists that an insulated Supreme Court ought not to attempt to instigate broad social reforms. Sweeping policymaking by the court, he contends, not only displaces the proper functions of legislatures but also seriously hampers the effectiveness of the court itself. In a book published this year, The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress, he carried his philosophical argument to its most controversial conclusions. Bickel suggested that...
When a recent Bickel article in the New Republic asserted that coercive governmental integration policies on a massive scale would not work and should be stopped, the professor's critics mounted an angry counterattack. "Oh, Professor Bickel's position is just dandy," said Civil Rights Attorney Marian Edelman. "Just let him explain it to all those black kids who remain in segregated schools." Lumping his colleague with John Mitchell, Spiro Agnew and Strom Thurmond, Yale's Professor Fred Rodell wrote that "The dominant domestic policy of this antediluvian league is to liquidate the work of the Warren...
Intellectual jousting has been a way of life for Bickel ever since he came to the U.S. as a 14-year-old immigrant from Bucharest. His family lived in New York City, where young Bickel spent most of his spare hours in the public library. "The ethos in our family was not to make money but to conserve it," recalls Bickel, who said that an overdue library book brought his father's sternest reprimand. Bickel breezed through City College of New York as a Phi Beta Kappa student, then moved to the Harvard Law School, where he became...
...Holds Barred. After graduation, Bickel eventually found his way to the chambers of Justice Felix Frankfurter, the man who most influenced his thinking. "Frankfurter believed in intellectual egalitarianism," says Bickel. "You could debate him only with no holds barred...