Stephen Breyer (born 1938) studied at Stanford University and at Oxford University, receiving his Bachelor of Arts from the latter. He then studied law at Harvard. In 1964 he worked as a law clerk at the US Supreme Court for Judge Arthur Goldberg. In 1973 he was Assistant Special Prosecutor in the investigation of the Watergate scandal. From 1967 to 1994 he was a professor at Harvard Law School, and a visiting professor in Sydney and Rome. He began his judicial career in 1980 at the Federal Court of Appeals for the 1st district. Since 1994 he has been a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, nominated by President Clinton.
Select publications (cited in The Court and the World, 2015):
The Court and the World. American Law and the New Global Realities (2015); Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View (2010); Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (2005); Judges in Contemporary Democracy: An International Conversation (mit Robert Badinter, 2004); Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation (1993); Regulation and Its Reform (1982)