Alexander Bickel

Alexander Bickel
Alexander Bickel
Born	Alexander Mordecai Bickel; December 17, 1924; Bucharest, Romania
Died	November 7, 1974 (aged 49); New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Spouse	Josephine Napolino
Academic background
Education	City College of New York (BA); Harvard University (LLB);
Influences	Edmund Burke; Felix Frankfurter; Henry M. Hart Jr.; James Madison;
Academic work
Discipline	Constitutional law
School or tradition	Legal process school
Institutions	Yale University
Notable works	The Least Dangerous Branch (1962)
Notable ideas	Countermajoritarian difficulty
Influenced	Samuel Alito; Robert Bork; Felix Frankfurter; John Roberts;

Alexander Mordecai Bickel (December 17, 1924 – November 7, 1974) was an American legal scholar who promoted a conservative interpretation of the United States Constitution. One of the most influential constitutional commentators of the twentieth century, his writings emphasize judicial restraint.