Editing Stephen Breyer (section)

==Legal career==
After law school, Breyer served as a [[law clerk]] to U.S. Supreme Court justice [[Arthur Goldberg]] from 1964 to 1965. He served briefly as a fact-checker for the [[Warren Commission]], then spent two years in the [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]]'s [[United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division|Antitrust Division]] as a special assistant to its [[United States Assistant Attorney General|assistant attorney general]].

In 1967, Breyer returned to Harvard Law School as an assistant professor. He taught at Harvard Law until 1980, and held a joint appointment at [[Harvard Kennedy School]] from 1977 to 1980. At Harvard, Breyer was known as a leading expert on [[administrative law]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jasanoff |first=Sheila |date=Spring 1994 |title=The dilemmas of risk regulation: Breaking the Vicious Circle by Stephen Breyer |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3622/is_199404/ai_n8720105 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118171456/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3622/is_199404/ai_n8720105 |archive-date=November 18, 2007 |work=Issues in Science and Technology}}</ref> While there, he wrote two highly influential books on deregulation: ''Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation'' and ''Regulation and Its Reform''. In 1970, Breyer wrote "[[The Uneasy Case for Copyright]]", one of the most widely cited skeptical examinations of copyright. Breyer was a visiting professor at [[The College of Law (Australia)|the College of Law]] in Sydney, Australia, the [[University of Rome La Sapienza|University of Rome]],<ref name="Supreme Court Bio" /> and the [[Tulane University Law School]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 16, 2011 |title=Tulane Law School – Study Abroad |url=http://www.law.tulane.edu/abroad/index.aspx?ekmensel=c580fa7b_168_0_4386_1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419042621/http://www.law.tulane.edu/abroad/index.aspx?ekmensel=c580fa7b_168_0_4386_1 |archive-date=April 19, 2017 |access-date=February 14, 2012 |publisher=Law.tulane.edu}}</ref>

While teaching at Harvard, Breyer took several leaves of absence to serve in the U.S. government. He served as an assistant [[special prosecutor]] on the [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] Special Prosecution Force in 1973. Breyer was a special counsel to the [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]] from 1974 to 1975 and served as chief counsel of the committee from 1979 to 1980.<ref name="Supreme Court Bio" /> He worked closely with the chairman of the committee, Senator [[Edward M. Kennedy]], to pass the [[Airline Deregulation Act]] that closed the [[Civil Aeronautics Board]].<ref name="Oyez Bio" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Thierer |first=Adam |date=December 21, 2010 |title=Who'll Really Benefit from Net Neutrality Regulation? |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20026346-501465.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019184816/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20026346-501465.html |archive-date=October 19, 2013 |access-date=December 22, 2010 |publisher=[[CBS News]]}}</ref>