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Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. A professor by training, he was acting United States Attorney General and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988.
May 16, 2024 · Robert H. Bork was an American legal scholar, federal judge, and onetime U.S. solicitor general (1973–77) whose nomination to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1987 was rejected by a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate.
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Robert Heron Bork was a federal judge, U.S. Solicitor General, legal scholar and public intellectual who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism and devised the Consumer Welfare Standard model that has governed antitrust law for more than a half-century.
Sep 18, 2023 · Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927) is a conservative legal scholar and former judge who advocates an originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution. Bork is also a highly accomplished antitrust law scholar and lawyer.
Robert Bork, AB’48, JD’53, a former judge, law professor and Solicitor General of the United States who was nominated to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, died on Dec. 19. He was 85.
Dec 19, 2012 · Robert Bork, ’53, former judge, law professor, and Solicitor General of the United States, passed away early this morning. He was 85. Judge Bork graduated from the College of the University of Chicago in 1948.
Dec 19, 2012 · Robert Bork, who was at the center of Senate hearings that "marked the modern battle lines over judicial nominations," as NPR's Nina Totenberg has said, is dead, according to The New York Times...