Paul M. Bator
| Paul Michael Bator | |
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| Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States | |
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In office October 1982 – December 1983 |
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| President | Ronald Reagan |
| Succeeded by | Charles Fried |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 2, 1929 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | February 24, 1989 (aged 59) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Princeton University (BA), Harvard University (MA, JD) |
Paul Michael Bator (June 2, 1929 – February 24, 1989) was an American legal academic, Supreme Court advocate and expert on United States federal courts. In addition to teaching for almost 30 years at Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School, Bator served as Deputy Solicitor General of the United States during the Reagan Administration.
Bator was born in 1929 in Budapest, Hungary, and moved with his parents to the United States in 1939. He attended Groton School and received his A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1951, where he was valedictorian. He earned a master's degree in history from Harvard University in 1953 and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as editor of the Harvard Law Review. From 1956 to 1957 he served as law clerk to Justice John M. Harlan II of the United States Supreme Court.
Following a brief period of private practice at Manhattan firm Debevoise, Plimpton & McLean, Bator began teaching at Harvard Law School in 1959. He became a full professor of law in 1962 and from 1971 to 1975 served as associate dean of the law school. While at Harvard, he published many articles, including his famous piece, "Finality in Criminal Law and Federal Habeas Corpus for State Prisoners," 76 Harv. L. Rev. 441 (1963), which described "how with reason we can arrive at just the reasonable balance between fairness and the need to attain finality in the criminal process." He also co-authored the second (1973) and third (1988) editions of Hart & Wechsler’s “The Federal Courts and the Federal System,” a leading text on federal jurisdiction.
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