Raoul Berger (January 4, 1901 – September 23, 2000)[1][2] was an American legal scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School.
[3] Upon his graduation, Berger worked first for the Securities and Exchange Commission, then as Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, and, finally, as Counsel to the Alien Property Custodian during World War II.
Berger was a popular academic critic of the doctrine of "executive privilege" and his writings, according to professor Vincent Crapanzano, played a role in undermining President Richard Nixon's constitutional arguments during the 1973–74 impeachment process.
[4] In 1977, Berger unleashed a firestorm of controversy within the legal academy with his next book, Government by Judiciary.
Berger presented arguments that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment did not intend it to forbid segregated schooling.