Boris Bittker

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Boris Irving Bittker (born November 28, 1916 in Rochester, New York ; died September 8, 2005 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American lawyer and tax scientist.

Life

After graduating from high school, he went to Cornell University in 1938 and studied law; after graduation, he moved to Yale Law School in 1941 , where he made his second exam. Before he graduated, he began working as a trainee lawyer for Jerome Frank , who was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeal for the 2nd district . From 1942 to 1943 he worked as a government attorney in the administration of the lend lease program. In 1943 he was called up; He fought until 1945 in an infantry regiment of the Army and was a gunshot wound behind enemy lines with the Purple Heart and the Combat Infantryman Badge excellent.

After the end of the war he worked again for the government, this time for the Office of Alien Property Custodian , which dealt with property issues of the enemy property.

In 1946 he went back to Yale and took a position as assistant professor . In 1948 he became an associate professor , in 1951 a professor and in 1970 he was given the title of Sterling Professor of Law . In May 1969, James Forman , an African-American civil rights activist, interrupted a service at the Riverside Church in New York and proclaimed parts of his Black Manifesto , including $ 500 million in reparations from the white churches and synagogues (as important institutions of the American Capitalism that enslaves and exploits blacks) were demanded for injustices inflicted on African-Americans over the centuries. Bittker, who had previously dealt with civil rights, pursued the legal side of this idea and published his book The Case for Black Reparations in 1973 , with fundamental considerations on reparation payments.

In 1983 he retired, but continued to work on his writings and books on tax law, constitutional law and civil rights. Boris Bittker has published over 100 scientific papers and 15 books as main or co-author.

He was married to his wife Anne for 48 years until her death in 1997. The couple had two children.

Memberships (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • Professional Responsibility in Federal Tax Practice , New York University School of Commerce, New York 1965
  • Constitutional Limits on the Taxing Power of the Federal Government , The Tax Lawyer , 1987

Literature (selection)

by Boris Bittker

about and with Boris Bittker

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nybooks.com: James Forman: Black manifesto , accessed May 17, 2016.


personal data
SURNAME Bittker, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bittker, Boris I .; Bittker, Boris Irving (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and tax scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester (New York) , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2005
Place of death New Haven (Connecticut) , United States