Oral History of Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg Index
Abraham, Spencer, 25
Adams, Sherman, 151
Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 147, 154, 157, 216, 218
Chevron (case), 149-50
public comment, 139-40 Agent Orange, 138
Airline Deregulation Act, 25 Aitken, Steve, 57, 79 Alchian, Armen, 124
Alito, Samuel, 112, 202-04 Amar, Akhil, 109
American Bar Association (ABA), 123-24, 137 American Enterprise Institute, 24
American Law Institute (ALI), 7
Angell, Marcia, 109
antitrust, 5-9, 11, 22, 27, 32, 39, 45 47, 57, 75, 79, 97, 119-24, 156, 158-60, 163, 170-71, 196-97 law, 43, 45, 159122-23, 174, 178
price squeeze argument, 174
Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles and Their Application (Areeda and Hovenkamp), 175
Areeda, Phil, 22, 24, 123
Arnold, Morris, 118
Association of American Law Schools (AALS), 17, 50, 102, 148
AT&T, 30, 43-44, 152, 174
Modification of Final Judgment, 43
satellite and microwave transmission, 43 waivers, 30-31, 44
See also Greene, Harold
Averch-Johnson hypothesis, 30 Azcuenaga, Mary, 159
Babbitt, Bruce, 131
Baden, John, 127-28, 131-32, 134 Bailey, Liz, 25
Baker, Don, 158
Baker, Jim, 45
Baldridge, Mac, 34, 46
Barak, Aharon, 23
Barkett, Rosemary, 189
Barry, Marion, 168
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Batchelder, 131, 134
Battelle Institute, 127-28
Baxter, Bill, 27-29, 39, 41
Bazelon, David, 8, 101, 103
Becker, Gary, 3
Bell Atlantic, 174
Bell, Griffin, 121-22
Berkeley Law School, 18, 20, 58-59, 80-81 BeVier, Lillian, 52
Beyond the 100th Parallel (Powell), 127 Bial, Joe, 170
Boggs, Danny, 128, 130-31, 133
Bok, Derek, 24
Bork, Robert, 50, 101
Boudin, Mike, 5
Boulton, Rick Warren, 42
boycott (FTC case), 158
Boyd, David, 9
Brady Center, 193
Brannon, Leah, 170
Brennan, William, 13, 15
Breyer, Steve, 24, 51-52, 109, 123, 173 Brooklyn Law School, 59
Brown, Janice Rogers, 63, 85, 179 Brudney, Victor, 23
Bryson, Bill, 10, 14
Buckley, Frank, 109
Buckley, James, 63, 85
Burger, Warren, 13-14
Burt, Bo, 18
Bush, George H.W., 38
Bybee, Jay, 112
Byrd, Robert, 51
cable television, 148, 151-52 affirmative action, 36
broadcasting, 156
Cable Television Association, 36
ownership rule, 154-56 Calabresi, Steve, 25
Cannon, Steve, 51
Capitalism and Freedom (Friedman), 22 Carr, Ron, 6-7, 14, 27
Carter, Jimmy, 26, 101, 140
Case Western Law Review, 173, 179
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Cato Institute, 124
CFR See Code of Federal Regulations Challenger (space vehicle), 181 Cheney, Richard, 114
Clark, Bob, 24, 49
Clark, Penny, 14
Clayton Act, 45
Clean Air Act, 141, 143
Clean Water Act, 141
Cleary Gottlieb, 170
Clement, Joy, 131
Coase, Ronald, 3, 7, 132
Code of Federal Regulations(CFR), 44 Collar-Kotelly, Colleen, 167-68 Collyer, Rosemary, 179
Colorado Law Review, 197
Columbia Law School, 58, 80, 120-21 Communications Act of 1934, 154 Community Rights Counsel, 133 Cornell University, 2, 120, 122, 125 Court of Federal Claims, 76, 98 Covington & Burling, 4, 5, 9, 13, 170 Cox, Archie, 20, 122
D’Amato, Al, 52
Darman, Dick, 35
Davis, Andre, 131, 133-34
Demsetz, Harold, 124
DeMuth, Chris, 24, 32, 38, 57, 79, 221-22 Diamond, Peter, 25
Dingell, John, 35-36, 54, 182
Dole, Bob, 51
Donaldson, William, 215
Douglas, William, 13
Dunlop, John, 25
Easterbrook, Frank, 6, 51, 63, 85 Economic Policy Council, 45
Edwards, Harry, 88, 97, 101-04, 113-15, 125-26, 148, 162, 172 case management plan, 66
Chief Judge, 75, 102-04, 107-08, 113 collegiality, 111
Harvard Law School, 20
EEOC See U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Eisenhower, Dwight, 151
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Elzinga, Ken, 170
Environmental Defense Fund, 130
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 35-36, 125, 136, 141-43, 190, 214, 216, 218, 220
General Motors (case), 101
National Ambient Air Quality Standard, 144 Epstein, Richard, 3, 7, 21, 123
Ethics in Government Act, 136
Executive Office of the President, 57, 79, 140
Facebook, 166
Fairness Doctrine, 152
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 21, 28, 30-31, 44, 47, 122, 125, 148, 150, 155
competition, 152, 178
Fox Television Stations (case), 153
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), 68, 90, 150, 178
Federal Judicial Center, 112
Federal Register, 35, 216
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 28, 41, 51, 68, 90, 124, 158-59, 170, 177-79 Federalist Society, 25
First Amendment, 37, 136, 158-59, 194
Fishburne, Laurence, 12, 16
Fisher, Roger, 23
Fiss, Owen, 4-5, 16, 18, 76, 98
Food and Drug Administration, 183
Ford River Rouge Complex, 188
Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, 126, 128, 131-133, 135 Fourth Amendment, 198, 200, 202-04
technology, 203
Fowler, Mark, 152
Fox Television, 153
Frank, Barney, 21
Frederick, David, 171
FREE See Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
Freedman, James O., 17
Freedom of Information Act, 105, 180-81, 183
exemptions, 181
Friedman, Paul, 178
Friedman, Danny, 104
Friedman, Milton, 22
Garland, Merrick, 111, 172
George Mason University, 108-09, 120-22, 124, 137 Gesell, Gerhard, 9
Getman, Julius, 188
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Ginsburg, Douglas H. (Personal) Berkeley, 17-18
Chicago, 1, 18-19, 22, 25, 57, 59, 69, 76, 78, 79, 80-82, 91, 98, 103, 132
Cornell University, 2 Ginsburg, Maurice (father), 1
Harvard Law School, 7, 17
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 2 summer job Covington & Burling, 5
University of Chicago Law School, 3, 17, 22, 24, 47, 98, 127
Law Review, 6, 7, 63, 85, 102 University of Pennsylvania, 17 University of Virginia, 17
Yale, 17
Ginsburg, Douglas H. (Professional) American Bar Association
judicial liaison, 123
bench memoranda, 65
Case Western Law Review, 173 Chief Judge
budget, 115
caseload, 114
circuit conference, 114 construction of new building, 115
collegiality, 102, 107-08, 111 concurring opinions, 73, 95, 173 deputy, 42, 44
disposition memorandum, 67 Federalist Society, 25
Harvard Law School
assistant professor, 5, 7, 22, 25, 40, 42
judicial nomination and appointment and confirmation, 47 law clerks
bench memoranda, 64
communications among, 76
hiring of law clerks, 56, 58-59, 78 relationship with after clerkship, 76, 98 reunions, 49, 77, 99
role in drafting opinions, 62, 64
law clerk for Judge Carl McGowan, 9
recusal, 14,-5
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Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) agenda, 34
relations with White House, 33 opinion-writing process, 69
per curiam opinions, 67, 75, 89, 97 Regulatory Review Program, 102 research assistant, 4
seminar on regulation of broadcasting, 20 style of writing opinions, 62
teaching, 4, 5, 18-19, 49, 69, 82, 91, 119-20, 122-23, 188 administrative law, 23
antitrust, 22
Columbia Law School, 58, 120-21
labor law, 47
Economic Regulation of Business, 21, 123 George Mason Scalia School of Law, 120 Harvard Law School, 8, 20, 32, 48
New York University Law School, 58, 61, 121 Readings in Legal Thought, 120
Regulation of Broadcasting, 21, 122 Regulation of Financial Institutions, 21, 24 University of Chicago Law School, 17, 58, 135
University of Chicago, 3,19, 58, 80-81, 204 U.S. Department of Justice
Assistant Attorney General, 7, 26, 43, 54, 211 Deputy Assistant Attorney General, 26
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 101, 107, 117 Goodrich, Pierre, 127
Gordon, Robert, 57
Gray, Boyden, 38
Greene, Harold, 16, 29-31, 43-44, 152, 207, 211 Greene, Ron, 16
Griffith, Thomas, 199
Guantanamo, 182-83
habeas corpus, 184
Habicht, Hank, 29
Harvard Law School, 16-20, 22-27, 51, 79-81, 109, 119-20, 122-23, 125-26, 130, 138, 168, 170
Edwards, Harry, 20 faculty political divisions, 26-27 Federalist Society, 25-26
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 25 Harvard Law Record, 23
Harvard Project on Deregulation, 24
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Hastie, Bill, 10
Hatch, Orrin, 37
Hayek, Friedrich, 128 Henderson, Karen, 55, 101, 116 high-tech (digital) markets, 166 Hogan, Thomas, 110
Holder, Eric, 212
IBM, 27-29
ILR. See New York State School of Industrial Relations intermediate scrutiny, 191, 19-95
Interstate Commerce Commission, 37
Iran-Contra, 71, 93, 207, 209-10
Jackson, Thomas Penfield, 75, 167
Jones, Edith, 131, 134
Judicial Code of Ethics, 133
Judicial Conference of the United States, 130, 133
regulations on honoraria, 137 Justus, Ralph, 41
Kagan, Donald, 2
Kagan, Elena, 16
Kahn, Fred, 25
Kalven, Harry, 3, 7
Katzenbach, Nick, 27
Kaufman, Irving, 57
Kavanaugh, Brett, 191, 194, 197-98, 206 Keeton, Bob, 23
Kellogg Huber, 77, 99
Kendall, Douglas, 133-35
Kennedy School of Government, 123, 130 Kennedy, Anthony, 203
Kennedy, Duncan, 23
Kennedy, Ted, 24-25, 32, 36, 51-52
Kerr, Orin, 202
Klein, Benjamin, 124
Klein, Joel, 14, 171
Kleinfeld, Andrew, 199
Konvitz, Milton, 2
Korologos, Tom, 52
Kurland, Philip, 4, 7
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Lamberth, Royce, 110
Lane, Ken, 216
Leon, Richard, 205
Leventhal, Harold, 8, 10, 18, 62, 84, 100-01, 140, 145, 173 Levi, Edward, 6, 7
Liberty Fund, 127-28
Liebeler, Susan, 56
Liebeler, Wesley, 57
linear dose-response assumption, 144 Lockwood, Peter, 4
Lubbers, Jeff, 3
MacKinnon, George, 8, 100
Manhunt (Swanson), 56
Manne, Henry, 120, 126-27 Markman, Steve, 47
Marshall, Thurgood, 4-5, 7, 10-16, 20
storyteller/raconteur, 15 Martin, John Bartlow, 8
Massachusetts Board of Optometry (FTC opinion), 177-78 Mayer, Brown, and Platt, 3
McGowan, Carl, 4, 14, 16, 49, 62, 64, 84, 86, 100, 147, 161
law clerk reunions, 8, 27 McGrath, Paul, 39
McIntosh, David, 25
Meese, Ed, 39, 43
Melamed, Doug, 171 Meltzer, Bernie, 3, 20 Mentschikoff, Soia, 126 Metzenbaum, Howard, 41, 52 Meyer, Gene, 25
Microsoft, 163, 167-72 monopolization, 169
See also Microsoft (case)
Mikva, Abner, 48, 71, 74, 85, 92, 96, 101-03, 104-08, 113, 117, 135, 148-49, 197, 207, 209, 211
opinion writing style, 63
University of Colorado Law Review, 63
visiting judges, 104 Mill, John Stuart, 109
Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin, 10 Minear, Jeff, 171
Missouri Breaks, 131, 133-34
Mont Pelerin Society, 128, 131
Moore, Derek, 170
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Morgan, Tom, 21, 123 Morris, Norval, 73, 95 Morrison, Alan, 23, 36 Murdoch News Corp, 166 Muris, Tim, 177
Murphy, Betty, 188 MySpace, 166
Nader, Ralph, 36
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQs), 144
See also Environmental Protection Agency National Cancer Institute, 37
National Industrial Recovery Act, 144 National Labor Relations Act, 20, 188 National Labor Relations Board, 187 Neal, Phil, 6-7
New England Journal of Medicine, 109
New York Law School, 24, 122
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 2 New York University (NYU), 16, 58, 80, 83, 122
New York Times, 26, 47, 181
Nixon, Richard, 14, 35, 140-41, 145
resignation, 13
NLRA See National Labor Relations Act Noerr-Pennington doctrine, 158-59 nondelegation doctrine, 143
North, Oliver, 207, 209
Northwestern University Law School, 1
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 36, 124, 190, 214, 218 OECD See Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Office of Legal Counsel, 31, 44, 182
Office of Legal Policy, 47
Official Secrets Act, 180
OIRA See Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
OLC See Office of Legal Counsel
OLP See Ofice of Legal Policy
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 38, 43, 46, 50-54, 57, 58, 79- 80, 139, 218-22
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 32,-36, 38, 140-41, 148, 221
On Liberty (Mill), 109
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 48 OSHA See Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 36 Otis, Lee, 25
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Paperwork Reduction Act, 35
People and Penguins (Baxter), 27
Pettit, Bob, 52
Pinchot, Gifford, 127
Poindexter, John, 207, 211
Polinsky, Mitch, 22
Polygram, 196
Posner, Richard 3, 7, 63, 64, 85-86, 123, 171, 199, 203 Powell, John Wesley, 127
Powell, Lewis, 7, 8, 14, 101
Powell, Rusty, 115, 116
Property and Environment Resource Center (PERC), 132 Public Citizen, 36
Raggi, Reena, 129
Randolph, A. Raymond, 70, 91, 117
rational basis standard, 148, 194
Resource, Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 141 Reagan Administration, 32, 139, 152, 210
Reagan, Ronald, 34, 49, 101, 114, 116, 140, 210
campaign, 26
reasonable expectation of privacy standard, 201 Record See Harvard Law Record, 23 Rehnquist, William, 75, 96, 210
Resources for the Future, 35, 141, 220
Revesz, Ricky, 16
Rhode, Deborah, 16
Riggs, Douglas, 45
Robb, Roger, 8, 100
Robinson, Spottswood, 8, 53, 63, 85, 159 Rosenberg, David, 24
Roth, Jane, 111
Rothstein, Barbara, 112
Rule, Rick, 41, 51, 170, 179
Russell, Milton, 35, 220
Sacks, Al, 23-24
Sayenga, Jill, 114-15
Scalia, Antonin, 50, 101, 175, 192, 198, 202-04, 206, 210 Schelling, Tom, 130
Scott, Hal, 18-19, 21-22, 24, 27, 123
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 214-220, 222 Second Amendment, 191, 194
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Sedgwick, Shannnon, 167
Selya, Bruce, 51
Sentelle, David, 55, 101, 108, 110-11, 116-17, 179, 206, 209 Sentencing Commission See U.S. Sentencing Commission Shapiro, Mary, 217
Shavell, Steve, 22, 24, 138, 170
Short, Duke, 51
Silberman, Laurence, 50, 101, 107, 113, 189, 207, 209-10 Simon, Paul, 52
Smith, Vernon, 109
Sotomayor, Sonia, 203
Srinivasan, Sri, 56, 78, 102
Starr, Ken, 50
Stevens, Ted, 211
Stevenson, Adlai, 8
Stewart, Dick, 24
Stigler, George, 3
Stockman, David, 32, 37-38, 54
Sullivan, Brendan, 209
Sullivan, Emmet, 211
Sunstein, Cass, 109, 149
Superior Court Trial Lawyers, 158
Supreme Court of the United States, 14-15, 18, 45, 47, 69, 74-76, 89, 91, 96-98, 100, 104-06, 119, 152, 158-61, 163-64, 166, 172-73, 175, 177-78, 180, 183-84, 189, 191-207, 210 intelligible principle, 143-44, 146-49
law clerks, 9, 12
opinion assignment, 67 relationships among justices, 12 separation of powers, 146
Also see individual cases
Swanson, James, 56, 78 Swygert, Luther, 103
Tamm, Edward, 8, 62, 84, 100 tapes case, See Watergate Tatel, David, 126, 199, 202 technology, 142, 203-06
The Brethren (Woodward and Armstrong), 13
The Myth of Labor Board Expertise (Getman), 188 The Super Lawyers (Goulden), 13
Thomas, Clarence, 148
Thomas, Lee, 35
three tiers of scrutiny, 196
three-strikes rule, 185
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Thurgood Marshall (Williams), 11 Thurmond, Strom, 51
Tomashaw, Irwin, 3
Totenberg, Nina, 13
Trefil, Jim, 109
Turner, Don, 29
Tyler Cowen, Vernon, 109
Udstuen, Mary Rose, 53, 57
University of Colorado Law Review, 63
University of Miami Law School Law and Economic Center, 126 University of Pennsylvania, 17
Urbina, Ricardo, 195
Urowsky, Richard, 169
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 118
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 10, 76, 98, 104
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 112
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 112, 194, 199
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 11, 16, 47, 57, 79, 118, 129
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 63, 85, 103, 194, 199, 201, 203
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 4, 8, 9, 12, 47, 49, 50, 52-53, 119, 139, 148, 160, 175
circuit conferences, 108, 112 “complex” cases, 126
en banc, 12, 67, 71, 75, 89 meetings, 113
opinion writing division of labor, 162
relationships among law clerks from different chambers 12 review of decisions by administrative agencies, 139 visiting judges, 103
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) employment discrimination, 185
sex discrimination, 187
U.S. Sentencing Commission, 46
Vetter, Jan, 20
Vorenberg, James, 24, 57, 79
Wald, Pat, 63, 85, 101, 107, 117, 183, 207, 211 Chief Judge, 53
Walsh, Lawrence, 208
Warner, Johon, 114
Warren, Ed, 135
Washington Post, 75, 97, 121, 134
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Watergate, 9, 12, 14-15
See also Watergate case
Weinstein, Jack, 138
Western Electric, 30
White, Byron, 18
Wilkey, Malcolm, 8-9, 100
Williams Act, 222
Williams, Juan, 11
Williams, Karen Hastie, 10
Williams, Steve, 11, 50, 60, 68, 82, 90, 101, 117, 126, 143, 145, 166, 173 Wilson, Gary, 16
Winter, Ralph, 16 Wright, J. Skelly, 8 Wright, Joe, 38
Wright, Joshua, 124, 170
Yale Law School, 18, 22, 25, 59, 81, 109 Young, Frank, 37
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