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Burt, Robert Amsterdam was born on February 3, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Matthew and Esther (Amsterdam) Burt.
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In a remarkably innovative reconstruction of constitutional history, Robert Burt traces the controversy over judicial supremacy back to the founding fathers. Also drawing extensively on Lincoln's conception of political equality, Burt argues convincingly that judicial supremacy and majority rule are both inconsistent with the egalitarian democratic ideal. The first fully articulated presentation of the Constitution as a communally interpreted document in which the Supreme Court plays an important but not predominant role, The Constitution in Conflict has dramatic implications for both the theory and the practice of constitutional law.
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The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right to die"—initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted suicide. This new claim rested on two seemingly irrefutable propositions: first, that death can be a positive good for individuals whose suffering has become intolerable; and second, that death is an inevitable and therefore morally neutral biological event. Death Is That Man Taking Names suggests, however, that a contrary attitude persists in our culture—that death is inherently evil, not just in practical but also in moral terms. The new ethos of rational self-control cannot refute but can only unsuccessfully try to suppress this contrary attitude. The inevitable failure of this suppressive effort provokes ambivalence and clouds rational judgment in many people's minds and paradoxically leads to inflictions of terrible suffering on terminally ill people. Judicial reforms in the 1970s of abortion and capital punishment were driven by similarly high valuations of rationality and public decision-making—rejecting physician control over abortion in favor of individual self-control by pregnant women and subjecting unsupervised jury decisions for capital punishment to supposed rationally guided supervision by judges. These reforms also attempt to suppress persistently ambivalent attitudes toward death, and are therefore prone to inflicting unjustified suffering on pregnant women and death-sentenced prisoners. In this profound and subtle account of psychological and social forces underlying American cultural attitudes toward death, Robert A. Burt maintains that unacknowledged ambivalence is likely to undermine the beneficent goals of post-1970s reforms and harm the very people these changes were intended to help.
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Burt, Robert Amsterdam was born on February 3, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Matthew and Esther (Amsterdam) Burt.
AB, Princeton University, 1960. Bachelor in Jurisprudence, Oxford University, 1962. Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1968.
Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1964. Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1976.
Assistant General Counsel, Executive Office of the President, of United States of America 1965-1966. Legis. Assistant, United States Senate 1966-1968. Association Professor, of Law, Chicago University 1968-1970.
Association Professor, of Law, Michigan University 1970-1972, Professor, of Law 1972-1973, Professor, of Law and Professor, of Law in Psychiatry 1973-1976. Professor, of Law, Yale University since 1976, Southmayd Professor, of Law since 1982. Special Master United States District Court, Connecticut since 1987.
Rockefeller Fellowship in Humanities 1976. Chairman since 1983, Mental Health Law Project since 1985, Chairman since 1990.
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Author: Taking Care of Strangers, 1979, Two Jewish Justices: Outcasts in the Promised Land, 1988, Constitution in Conflict, 1992, Death Is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law and Culture, 2002.
Board directors Benhaven School Autistic Persons, New Haven, since 1977, chairman, 1983-1996. Board directors Judge David L. Bazelon Center Mental Health Law, since 1985, chairman, 1990-1900. Board directors Slifka Center Jewish Life at Yale, since 1996, president since 2009.
Member advisory board Project on Death in American, Open Society Institute, 1994-1904. Member advisory board bioethics faculty scholars program Greenwall Foundation, since 2003. Member of National Academy of Sciences, Institute Medicine.
Running.
Married Linda Gordon Rose, June 14, 1964. Children: Anne Elizabeth, Jessica Ellen.