Bickel, Alexander M.

Alexander Mordecai Bickel was born in 1924. He emigrated to the United States from Romania in 1938. After serving in the United States Army, he graduated from the City College of New York in 1947, and the Harvard Law School in 1949. He was a law clerk to Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1952 to 1953. Bickel was a professor at the Yale Law School from 1956 until his death in 1974. He published nine books and more than one hundred articles on law, government, political reform, the Supreme Court, and legal history. He was an associate editor of The New Republic; a writer for other popular journals; a military intelligence officer attached to the High Commissioner for Germany and the State Department, and an advisor on desegregation bills and other social legislation from 1958 to 1974. Bickel was active in the Democratic Party, especially between 1967 and 1969. He died in New Haven on November 7, 1974.

From the description of Alexander Mordecai Bickel papers, 1916-1987 (inclusive), 1930-1975 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702194563

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