American Legal Education Reform: Internationalization of the Law School Curriculum
主 讲 人：Prof. Frederick M. Lawrence
乔治华盛顿大学法学院院长
主 持 人：王锡锌 教授
时 间：2007年3月21日（周三）
下午5点
地 点：北京大学文史楼107
Lawrence 院长简介：
Frederick Lawrence came to GW Law as dean in August 2005. One of the nation’s leading civil rights experts, he is the author of Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes Under American Law, which examines bias-motivated violence and how the United States deals with such crimes. He has written widely in the areas of civil rights crimes and free expression. Dean Lawrence began his legal career in 1980 as clerk to Judge Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Later, he was named an assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York, where he became chief of the office’s civil rights unit. In 1988 he joined the faculty of Boston University School of Law where he taught courses on civil procedure, criminal law, civil rights enforcement,and civil rights crimes, and served as the school,s associate dean for academic affairs from 1996 to 1999. In 1996 he received Boston University’s Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest of the university’s teaching honors. Dean Lawrence has been a senior visiting research fellow with the University College London Faculty of Law and has studied bias crimes law in the United Kingdom through a Ford Foundation grant. He has lectured nationally
and internationally about bias crime law, testified before Congress in support of federal hate crimes legislation and concerning Justice Department misconduct in Boston and, in 2004, he was a member of the American delegation to the meeting of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe on Enactment and Enforcement of Legislation to Combat Hate-Motivated Crimes. Since 2003, he has served as chair of the National Legal Affairs Committee of the Anti-Defamation League. Dean Lawrence also has performed in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with the New York Choral Society.
