the majority. In 1973, Bork was appointed as Solicitor General of the United States by President Richard Nixon. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court had begun striking down antitrust legal precedents. In just two decades, Director and his students had brought the Chicago school from obscurity to a major intellectual force in American politics. After retiring from the University of Chicago Law School in 1965, Director relocated to California and took a position at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He died September 11, 2004, at his home in Los Altos Hills, California, ten days shy of his 103rd birthday. See also Director's law References External links Aaron Director Papers at the University of Chicago Library 1901 births 2004 deaths American centenarians Men centenarians Aaron Director Educators from Portland, Oregon Lincoln High School (Portland, Oregon) alumni Ukrainian Jews Jewish American social scientists Yale University alumni University of Chicago Law School faculty Economists from Oregon 20th-century American economists Law and economics scholars Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Chicago School economists