Editing Ted Stevens (section)

===Higher education and law school===
After the war, Stevens attended the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA), where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in [[political science]] in 1947.<ref name="whitney-formative"/> While at UCLA, he was a member of [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] fraternity (Theta Rho chapter).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Presidents {{!}} DKE |url=https://dke.org/presidents/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |language=en-US |archive-date=May 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512130843/https://dke.org/presidents/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He applied to law school at [[Stanford Law School|Stanford]] and the [[University of Michigan Law School|University of Michigan]], but on the advice of his friend Russell Green's father to "look East", he applied to [[Harvard Law School]], which he ended up attending. Stevens's education was partly financed by the [[G.I. Bill]]; he made up the difference by selling his blood, borrowing money from an uncle, and working several jobs including one as a bartender in Boston.<ref name="whitney-formative"/> During the summer of 1949, Stevens was a research assistant in the office of the [[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney]] for the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California|Southern District of California]] (now the [[Central District of California]]).<ref name="harvardlawreview">"With the editors{{spaces}}..." 64 ''Harvard Law Review'' vii (1950).</ref><ref name="Mitchell 2001"/>{{rp|222}}

While at Harvard, Stevens wrote a paper on [[maritime law]] that received honorable mention for the Addison Brown prize, a Harvard Law School award for the best student-penned essay related to [[private international law]] or maritime law.<ref name="harvardlawreview"/> The essay later became a ''[[Harvard Law Review]]'' article,<ref name="stevens-lawreview">{{cite journal|last=Stevens|first=Theodore F.|title=Erie R.R. v. Tompkins and the Uniform General Maritime Law|volume=64|journal=Harvard Law Review|pages=88–112|year=1950|issue=2|doi=10.2307/1336176|jstor=1336176|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1336176|access-date=May 10, 2023|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510161852/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1336176|url-status=live}}</ref> and, 45 years later, Justice [[Jay Rabinowitz (jurist)|Jay Rabinowitz]] of the [[Alaska Supreme Court]] praised Stevens's scholarship, telling the ''[[Anchorage Daily News]]'' that the high court had issued a recent opinion citing the article.<ref name="whitney-formative"/> Stevens graduated from Harvard Law School in 1950.<ref name="whitney-formative"/>