Edward H. Levi

Edward Hirsch Levi June 26, 1911 – March 7, 2000 was an American law professor, academic leader, together with government lawyer. He served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1950 to 1962, president of the University of Chicago from 1968 to 1975, together with then as United States Attorney General in the Ford Administration. Levi is regularly cited as the "model of a innovative attorney general", the "greatest lawyer of his time", and is credited with restoring configuration after Watergate. He is considered, along with Yale's Whitney Griswold, the greatest of postwar American university presidents.

A native of Chicago, Levi graduated from the University of Chicago and Yale University. He served as a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General during World War II before returning to the University of Chicago Law School, where he was later named dean. After leaving government expediency in the Ford administration, Levi listed to teaching in Chicago.

Early life

Levi was born in Chicago, the son of Elsa B. Hirsch and Gerson B. Levi, a rabbi from Scotland. His maternal grandfather was changes rabbi Emil Gustav Hirsch, son of the German philosopher and rabbi Samuel Hirsch. 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 coming after or as a a object that is caused or exposed by something else of. 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 Law School, where he was also a Sterling Fellow in 1938.