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Alexander Mordecai Bickel (December 17, 1924 – November 7, 1974) was an American legal scholar and expert on the United States Constitution. One of the most influential constitutional commentators of the twentieth century, his writings emphasize judicial restraint.
Mar 1, 2012 · Alexander Bickel was a Yale Law School professor and a public critic of the Supreme Court's activism in the 1960s. He defended Brown v. Board of Education and argued for a prudent role of the Court in constitutional interpretation.
Sep 10, 1986 · Law professor Author Alexander M. Bickel was one of the most influential constitutional commentators of the 20th century, and this book is a masterwork. In it, Bickel famously coins the term "countermajoritarian difficulty" to describe his view that judicial review undermines democracy.
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Nov 8, 1974 · NEW HAVEN, Nov. 7—Alexander M. Bickel, Yale's Sterling Professor of Law and one of the country's pre‐eminent authorities on the Constitution, died today of cancer at his home. He was 49 years...
Jan 1, 2009 · Alexander Bickel (1924-1974) was a recognized legal scholar of the Supreme Cout and the First Amendment. He represented the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case, an important precedent for First Amendment press freedom.
Aug 5, 2009 · Alexander M. Bickel and Robert H. Bork shaped these concerns in the 1960s and early 1970s while they were close friends and Yale faculty colleagues. Both recognized that the Warren Court's liberal activism, when considered in the aftermath of legal realism, demanded a clearer theory of the limits of legitimate judicial power.
There is, today, no Bickelian school of constitutional theory, no group of scholars working to elaborate Bickel's main ideas or even to defend them, no continuing and connected body of legal writing in the intellectual tradition to which Bickel claimed allegiance.
