Editing Robert Bork (section)

===Academia===
After law school, Bork spent another year in military service. From 1954 to 1962, he was in private practice at the law firms [[Kirkland & Ellis]] and [[Willkie Farr & Gallagher]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Bronner |first=Ethan |title=A Conservative Whose Supreme Court Bid Set the Senate Afire |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/us/robert-h-bork-conservative-jurist-dies-at-85.html |work=The New York Times |date=December 19, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/nomination-robert-h-bork-be-associate-justice-supreme-court-united-states|title = Nomination of Robert H. Bork to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States}}</ref> In 1962, Bork left private practice and joined the faculty of [[Yale Law School]] as a professor. He taught at Yale from 1962 to 1981, with a four-year break from 1973 to 1977 when he served as U.S. Solicitor General. Among Bork's students at Yale Law were [[Bill Clinton]], [[Hillary Clinton]], [[Anita Hill]], [[Robert Reich]], [[Jerry Brown]], [[Linda Greenhouse]], [[John Bolton]], [[Samuel Issacharoff]], and [[Cynthia Estlund]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Special Counsel Investigation|url=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/109864-1|work=Washington Journal|publisher=C-SPAN|date=August 11, 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Frey |first=Jennifer |url=http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/magazine/uncategorized/samuel-issacharoff |title=Introducing Samuel Issacharoff |publisher=The Law School Magazine |year=2005 |access-date=December 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501031026/http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/magazine/uncategorized/samuel-issacharoff |archive-date=May 1, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>

As a law professor, Bork was best known for his 1978 book ''[[The Antitrust Paradox]]'', in which he argued that consumers often benefited from corporate mergers, and that many contemporary readings of the [[antitrust]] laws were economically irrational and hurt consumers. He posited that the primary focus of antitrust laws should be on consumer welfare, including producer welfare and consumer welfare, rather than ensuring competition, for fostering competition of companies within an industry has a natural built-in tendency to allow, and even help, many poorly run companies with methodologies and practices that are both inefficient and expensive to continue in business simply for the sake of competition, to the detriment of both consumers and society. Bork's writings on antitrust law, with those of [[Richard Posner]] and other [[law and economics]] and [[Chicago School (economics)|Chicago School]] thinkers, have been influential in causing a shift in the Supreme Court's approach to antitrust laws since the 1970s. Bork also supports using anticompetitive practices within the text as useful business practices. (e.g. exclusive deals, mergers, price fixing, etc.) <ref>{{cite journal |last=Gerhart |first=Peter M. |title=The Supreme Court and Antitrust Analysis: The (Near) Triumph of the Chicago School |url=http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1601&context=faculty_publications |journal=The Supreme Court Review |volume=1982 |pages=319–349 |year=1982 |jstor=3109560 |s2cid=147003503 |doi=10.1086/scr.1982.3109560}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Fox |first=Eleanor M. |title=The Battle for the Soul of Antitrust |journal=[[California Law Review]] |volume=75 |issue=3 |pages=917–923 |year=1987 |jstor=3480656 |doi=10.2307/3480656}}</ref><ref name=":1" />