Prof michael bromwich biography

By Nat Schmookler.

“There’s an immediate sense one has, which must be relied on, which we can’t not trust, that says: that’s just wrong.”

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David Bromwich has proved himself to be that rarest kind of intellectual: one whose interests have broadened over time. After honing his academic chops on William Hazlitt as a young man, he has since expanded to aesthetics, 19th-century American history, William Wordsworth, and, most recently and to great acclaim, Edmund Burke.

Yet, despite racking up impressive and diverse academic achievements, Bromwich has also found the time to become one of America’s most trenchant political commentators. Weighing in on the president’s decisions on matters ranging from the war in Syria to healthcare, he has become a strong and articulate voice for the general sense of disappointment dogging many Obama supporters since 2009.

Less than a year after the publication of his newest book, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke, Profe

Michael Bromwich

American lawyer

Michael Bromwich

Bromwich (right) sworn in by Secretary of the InteriorKen Salazar as Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (2010)

In office
June 15, 2010 – October 1, 2011
Preceded byS. Elizabeth Birnbaum
Succeeded byPosition abolished
In office
June 9, 1994 – August 16, 1999
Preceded byRichard Hankinson
Succeeded byRobert Ashbaugh (Acting)
Born (1953-12-19) December 19, 1953 (age 71)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (BA, MPA, JD)

Michael R. Bromwich (born December 19, 1953) is an American litigation attorney who was the inspector general of the U.S. Justice Department from 1994 to 1999. He was appointed as director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement on June 15, 2010, in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[1] (The agency was known as the Minerals Management Service prior to that date.) He served in that capacity until the dissolution of the agency on October 1, 2011.

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John Q. Barrett

John Q. Barrett is Professor of Law at St. John's University in New York City, where he teaches constitutional law and legal history, and Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow and a board member at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, New York.

Barrett, a prominent teacher, scholar, public lecturer and commentator, is writing the biography of Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954). Jackson was a leading New York State and American lawyer, including in Buffalo; a senior New Deal official; Solicitor General of the United States; Attorney General of the United States; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; and, during 1945-1946, the architect of and then the chief U.S. prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Allied-occupied former Germany, which adjudicated the guilt of the principal surviving Nazi leaders.

Professor Barrett discovered, edited and introduced Justice Jackson's previously unknown, now acclaimed memoir That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Frankli

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