Although best known for
his prominence as a federal circuit judge
on the highly-visible U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit from
1982 until his resignation in 1988, Judge
Bork's extensive collection of approximately
100,000 items documents the full range
of his many roles as a lawyer in private
practice, a professor at the Yale Law
School, the Solicitor General during the
Watergate crisis, and a well-known public
intellectual. The papers show the evolution
of his ideas on the administration of
justice, the judicial function, and antitrust
law, as well as his wide service on the
boards of many foundations, public interest
groups, federal agencies, and independent
committees.
