Edward Levi
Edward Levi
Edward Hirsch Leviwas an American law professor, academic leader, scholar and statesman. He served as president of the University of Chicago from 1968 to 1975, and then as United States Attorney General in the Ford Administration. Levi is regularly cited as the "model of a modern attorney general," the "greatest lawyer of his time," and is credited with restoring order after Watergate. He is considered, along with Yale's Whitney Griswold, the greatest of postwar American university presidents...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth26 June 1911
CountryUnited States of America
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The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.