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...best-known law professors these days seem to be activist and liberal, urging sweeping social and political reforms. At Yale, Alexander M. Bickel, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, is as much an activist as any of his colleagues. He considers himself a liberal Democrat, campaigned for Robert Kennedy and serves as a contributing editor of the New Republic. Yet Bickel is a notable exception to the liberal stereotype: he is most noted for his judicial conservatism...
...year Bickel, 45, has shuttled regularly to Washington to testify on subjects ranging from electoral-college reform to presidential war powers...
...entire term, the result of the Senate's rejections of Nixon Nominees Clement Haynsworth and George Harrold Carswell. With only eight, and sometimes seven* justices sitting, the court sidestepped decisions on some of the most controversial cases argued before it. It was, according to Law Professor Alexander Bickel of Yale, "the year of the pause...
...Bruins John Bennett and Bickel won in straight sets. 6-4, 6-4, at second doubles, and Guterman and Johnson swept a 6-1, 6-2 victory at number three...
Malignant Cycle. Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, whose writing on desegregation Nixon admires, had doubts about that phrase. "I trust that Nixon doesn't mean that you can have a district where nothing has been done excused because it has shown good faith," he said. But Bickel found the message "hardheaded and well-intended, a fair statement of the case law and a realistic appraisal of the situation." Johns Hopkins' Dr. James Coleman, author of a well-known study on the educational effects of integration and an expert whom Nixon consulted before issuing the statement, disagreed. "I think...