Raoul Berger (Impeachment)

[H2O Man]

One of the people scheduled to speak to the House Committee today is Stephen Presser, the Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History at Northwestern University’s School of Law. For old-timers on DU, the name Raoul Berger holds a special place: in the Nixon era, he was recognized as the leading expert on the laws regarding executive abuses of power and impeachment.

I suspect that those DUers who oppose impeachment are unfamiliar with Berger. It is also likely that others have not been exposed to his most influential writings. I thought it might be worth my looking through my library for a few suggested readings.

(1) "Executive Privilege v. Congressional Inquiry"; UCLA Law Review, XII, 1077; 1965.
(2) "War-Making by the President"; Pennsylvania Law Review,62; 1972.
(3) "The Presidential Monopoly of Foreign Relations"; Michigan Law Review, 35; 1972
(4) "Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems"; Cambridge.1973

Also, please see "Executive Privilege: The Withholding of Information by the Executive," Subcommittee on Separation of Powers, Senate Judiciary Committee (92 Congress, 1 Session, 346; 1971).