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Stephen Breyer has long been a leader in the quest to build a rational consensus on the appropriate role of government intervention in a market-based economy. As counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee under Ted Kennedy, he was one of the chief architects of airline deregulation. As a law professor and a Supreme Court Justice, he has made seminal contributions to the understanding of social and economic regulation, copyright law, and administrative law. Justice Breyer is the author of Regulation and Its Reform (Harvard, 1992) and Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation (Harvard, 1993), the latter of which proposes striking changes in the way people should think about effective risk management. Economic Reasoning and Judicial Review was delivered in December 2003 as the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies’ 2003 distinguished lecture.

Stephen G. Breyer is an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Court in 1994. Previously, he served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and taught at Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.