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...faculty can have some very substantial divisions on philosophical issues for a long time and still continue to do its thing in the classroom," said Jesse Choper, dean of the Law School at the University of California at Berkeley...
...Tribe, who was appointed to the Harvard Law School faculty at the ripe young age of 26. His 1978 treatise American Constitutional Law has become a primary reference work for scholars, lawyers and judges across the country and has been cited in more than 400 court cases. Jesse Choper, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, places Tribe at "the very top of his field" as one of the law's most brilliant scholars. In recent years. Tribe has also become a fearsome presence in the courtroom, where he generally takes the liberal side...
Berkeley Law Professor Jesse Choper suspects that the Justices took the case because they wanted to discourage the increasing encroachments on their church-state doctrine. "They're not going to let people chisel away at the perimeters," says Choper...
...Jesse Choper, visiting professor of Law from Berkeley, called Shapiro "extremely talented" and "a worthy successor to McCloskey...
Above the Struggle. The basic concern is to preserve the high court's impartiality. "So long as a Justice, or a President for that matter, is especially careful not to get involved with questions that might become judicial questions," says Law Professor Jesse Choper of the University of California at Berkeley, "then I don't think there's anything improper about this at all." Harvard Law School's Arthur Sutherland agrees: "If it's something that might come before a judge, then it's his obligation to keep his mouth shut...