Justice Stephen Breyer.Photo: ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty
Recently retired Supreme Court JusticeStephen Breyer, 83, is heading back to school and will re-join the law school faculty at Harvard University.
According to apress release, Breyer “will teach seminars and reading groups, continue to write books and produce scholarship, and participate in the intellectual life of the school and in the broader Harvard community.”
The announcement marks a homecoming of sorts for Breyer, who taught at Harvard prior to joining the Supreme Court, even working as an administrative law professor after he became a federal appeals court judge in 1980.
President Joe Biden speaks with Justice Stephen Breyer after delivering the State of the Union in 2022.Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty
In the announcement, Harvard dean and law professor John Manning said he was “thrilled to welcome [Breyer] home to Harvard.”
“Justice Breyer is a historic jurist and a world-class legal scholar who also has a distinguished history as a member of this faculty,” Manning said. “I am thrilled to welcome him home to Harvard Law School. His brilliance, experience, collegiality, openness, and intellectual inquisitiveness will deeply enrich our community and advance our mission of teaching, scholarship, and service.”
Breyerrelinquished his Supreme Court postin June, after 28 years as an associate justice.
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Breyer served in the Supreme Court’s liberal minority for nearly three decades, announcing hisretirementin January after months of speculation and writing in alettersent to PresidentJoe Biden, “I have decided to retire from regular active judicial service as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.”
source: people.com
