- Levi, Edward Hirsch
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▪ 2001American lawyer and educator (b. June 16, 1911, Chicago, Ill.—d. March 7, 2000, Chicago), as U.S. attorney general under Pres. Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, he helped restore public confidence in the Department of Justice following the Watergate scandal. Before his service in Washington, he held numerous posts at the University of Chicago, including dean of the law school (1950–62), university provost (1962–68), and president of the university (1968–75). He returned to the university in 1977, teaching law until his retirement in 1984. Among Levi's publications, his 1949 work An Introduction to Legal Reasoning, was regarded as a classic and became required reading at many American law schools.
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