The Honorable Stephen Breyer has served as a US Supreme Court Justice since 1994, when he was appointed to the post by President Clinton. He taught for many years as a professor at Harvard Law School and at the Kennedy School of Government. Breyer clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, and served as an attorney in the antitrust division of the US Justice Department. He was an assistant Watergate special prosecutor, and chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1980, he was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit by President Carter, and became chief judge in 1990.

Breyer has written numerous books concerning administrative law, economic regulation, and the Constitution, including Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution (2005); Breaking the Vicious Circle Toward Effective Risk Regulation (1995); and Celebrating the Courthouse: A Guide for Architects, Their Clients, and the Public with Steven Flanders (2006).

Justice Breyer will present a lecture and participate in a panel discussion at the College of Arts & Sciences on March 4, 2008 in the C. Walsh Theatre.