Professor of Law, University of Chicago
1982
Citation:
The outstanding promise you showed as a law school student has been fulfilled in your brilliant career as an attorney and professor of law. First honored as a student when you were selected president of the Harvard Law Review at Harvard Law School, you were singled out as one of the brightest law graduates in the country by being selected as clerk for Justice Jerome Frank of the Federal Court of Appeals, one of the most respected judges in the country, and the next year by Justice Felix Frankfurther of the U.S. Supreme Court. Through your years in public and private practice, you have evolved as one of the ranking constitutional scholars alive today. As an author, you have shown yourself to be a strong advocate of judicial restraint. Your writing, as founder and editor-in-chief of the Supreme Court Review, one of the pre-eminent journals in this country covering constitutional law, and as the author of several well-respected volumes on the Supreme Court, reflects your continued belief in the wisdom of the separation of power between our branches of government as first outlined in our Constitution. Underlying that belief is the deep concern of a compassionate, humane, and principled man that the rights of individual citizens must be protected from potentially unjust intrusions of the state. Your superior intelligence has only been enhanced by your inherent modesty about your achievements. It is therefore with great pleasure and with true respect for you as a lawyer, a scholar, and a human being that we confer upon you the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws. Commencement, University of Detroit, School of Law, May 8, 1982.