Paul Michael Bator | |
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Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States | |
In office October 1982 – December 1983 | |
President | Ronald Reagan |
Succeeded by | Charles Fried |
Personal details | |
Born | Budapest, Hungary | June 2, 1929
Died | February 24, 1989 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 59)
Political party | Republican |
Education | Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (MA, LLB) |
Paul Michael Bator (June 2, 1929 – February 24, 1989) was a Hungarian-born American legal scholar, Supreme Court advocate, and academic expert on United States federal courts. He taught for almost 30 years at Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. He also served as the United States Deputy Solicitor General during the Reagan administration, in which capacity he argued and won the landmark administrative law case Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council. From 1984 to 2024, the Chevron doctrine governed the judicial interpretation of Congressional statutes that authorized federal regulators to make law.
He clerked for Justice John Marshall Harlan II of the United States Supreme Court.