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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer I. Introduction: Seated in October of l994, Justice Stephen Breyer is the 108 person to serve on the United States Supreme Court. Described as "brilliant, friendly and nice," Breyer graduated from Stanford in l959 with a degree in philosophy.1 He later earned his law degree at Harvard Law School. Since 1967, Justice Breyer has served as either a full-time professor or part-time lecturer at Harvard. His primary interest is administrative law, having an "active interest in economic regulation affecting industry, in antitrust law, and in securities law."2 Before being nominated to the Supreme Court, Breyer served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston II. Judicial Philosophy: Breyer may be generally considered conservative, but his judicial philosophy is more complicated than the label suggests. He has acquired this evaluation mainly because of his stance on antitrust law and regulation, especially environmental regulation. One commentator considers him anti-consumer and probig business, based on his record as a Circuit Court of Appeals justice where he ruled in favor of corporate defendants in all 19 antitrust cases which came before him.3 It would be more accurate to say that Justice Breyer's judicial philosophy is informed by justice, court, supreme, law, judicial, souter, rehnquist, o'connor, kennedy, conservative, rights, ginsburg, president, time, thomas, should, scalia, constitutional, views, university, equal, decisions, states, protection, one, however, because, vote, voice, opinion, government, circuit, case, although, term, stevens