William J. Quirk

Background

William J. Quirk was born on November 13, 1933.

Education

Quirk received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1956 and his LL.B from the University of Virginia in 1959.

Career

Quirk worked as a general counsel and assistant corporation counsel for real estate at the Department of Buildings of the City of New York from 1966 to 1970. Later, between 1969 and 1977 he had a private practice of law in New York. Since 1970 Quirk was a professor of law at the University of South Carolina at Columbia.

Quirk is also a contributor of about forty articles to law journals and popular magazines, including New York, New Republic, Newsday, Business and Society Review, Harper’s, Fortune, and South Carolina Law Review.

Achievements

• William J. Quirk is best known for his books "Judicial Dictatorship" (with R. Randall Bridwell), "Courts and Congress: America's Unwritten Constitution" (with Ralph Nader) and "Abandoned: The Betrayal of the American Middle Class Since World War II" (with R. Randall Bridwell).

Works

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• book

  • Judicial Dictatorship
  • Courts and Congress: America's Unwritten Constitution
  • Abandoned: The Betrayal of the American Middle Class since World War II
  • Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies

Connections

colleague:

R. Randall Bridwell

colleague:

Ralph Nader