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Edward Hirsch Levi (
June 26,
1911 –
March 7,
2000) was an
American academic leader, scholar, and statesman who served as
United States Attorney General.
Early Life
Levi was born in
Chicago, Illinois, the son and grandson of
rabbis. He received his A.B.
Phi Beta Kappa from
the undergraduate college of the
University of Chicago in 1932, and later his J.D. at the
University of Chicago Law School in 1935. The following year he was named an assistant professor of law at the
Law School and was admitted to the Illinois bar. He earned a
J.S.D. from
Yale University, where he was also a
Sterling Fellow in 1938.
Education and political career
During
World War II he served as a special assistant to the
Attorney General of the United States. In 1945, he returned to the
University of Chicago Law School and was named dean of the law school in 1950. In 1950, he also worked as chief
counsel for the Subcommittee on Monopoly Power of the
U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary. He resigned as law school dean and became
provost of the university in 1962.
He was a member of the
White House Central Group on Domestic Affairs in 1964, the
White House Task Force on Education from 1966 to 1967 and the
President's Task Force on Priorities in Higher Education from 1969 to 1970.
He became the University of Chicago's president in 1968, serving until 1975, when
President Gerald R. Ford appointed him 71st Attorney General of the United States. Levi was the first
Jewish Attorney General of the United States.
During his term as Attorney General, he issued a set of guidelines (in
1976) to limit the activities of the
FBI. These guidelines required the FBI to show evidence of a
crime before using secret police techniques like
wiretaps or entering someone's home without warning. These guidelines were replaced by new ones issued in
1983 by
Ronald Reagan's Attorney General,
William French Smith. He also successfully urged President Ford to appoint fellow Chicagoan
John Paul Stevens to the
United States Supreme Court.
Later Life
After his term as Attorney General, he returned to teaching at the University of Chicago's Law School and College. He was a visiting professor at
Stanford University Law School from 1977 to 1978.
He was the author of
An Introduction to Legal Reasoning, which was first published in 1949 and his speeches were collected in
Point of View: Talks on Education.
He was a trustee of the University of Chicago and the
MacArthur Foundation. He was a chairman and a member of the Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility.
He died in Chicago of
Alzheimer's disease in 2000.
His son, former federal judge
David F. Levi, is the current dean of
Duke Law School.
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