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Guest:Michael J. Graetz
Author of “The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right”
Website: Michael J. Graetz's Website

Michael J. Graetz is a leading expert on national and international tax law.

Graetz joined the Columbia faculty in the fall of 2009 after holding faculty positions at Yale Law School for nearly 25 years. He has written many books on federal taxation, including a leading law school text, as well as more than 60 articles on a wide range of tax, international taxation, health policy, and social insurance issues.

Before joining Columbia, Graetz had been the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law at YaleLaw School since 1986. He had joined Yale's faculty in 1983. Prior to his time at Yale, Graetz was Professor of Law and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology and Professor of Law at the University of Southern California from 1979 to 1983. He started his teaching career as a law professor at the University of Virginia Law School from 1972 to1979.

In addition to his teaching career, Graetz has held several positions in the federal government. He was Assistant to the Secretary and Special Counsel for the U.S. Department of the Treasury from January to June in 1992, and he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from January of 1990 to December of 1991.

He has written or edited numerous books, including The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security and Independence (MIT Press, 2011); 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States (Yale University Press 2007); Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth(with Ian Shapiro) (Princeton University Press 2005); Foundations of International Income Taxation, (Foundation Press 2003); and The U.S. Income Tax: What it Is, How it Got That Way and Where We Go From Here, (Norton 1999).

He is also the author of the leading law school coursebook, Federal Income Taxation: Principles and Policies.

Graetz earned his B.B.A. from Emory University in 1966 and his LL.B. from the University ofVirginia in 1969.
Graetz has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow and he received an award from Esquire Magazine for courses and work in connection with provision of shelter for the homeless. He served on the Commissioner's Advisory Group of the Internal Revenue Service. He served previously in the Treasury Department in the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel during 1969-1972. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

THE BOOK: “The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right”

A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a “moderate” or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.

When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968 he promised to change the Supreme Court. With four appointments to the court, including Warren E. Burger as the chief justice, he did just that. In 1969, the Burger Court succeeded the famously liberal Warren Court, which had significantly expanded civil liberties and was despised by conservatives across the country.

The Burger Court is often described as a “transitional” court between the liberal Warren Court and the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts, a court where little of importance happened. But as Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse show, the Burger Court veered well to the right in such areas as criminal law, race, and corporate power. Even while declaring a right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, it drew the line at government funding for poor women. The authors excavate the roots of the most significant Burger Court decisions and show how their legacy affects us today.

The most comprehensive evaluation of the Burger Supreme Court ever written for a general audience, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right draws on the personal papers of the justices as well as other archives to reveal how the Court shaped its major decisions. It will surprise even legal scholars and historians with its insights into a period that has received too little attention from either.

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Guest:Michael J. Graetz
Author of “The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right”
Website: Michael J. Graetz's Website

Jack Girardi
Co-Host
Website: www.girardikeese.com

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Executive Producer and Host
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