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Fiss to Present Fall Alfange Lecture

The Dean Alfange, Jr. Lecture Series on Constitutional Law continues this fall with Owen M. Fiss, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, on Monday, September 17 at 4.00 p.m. His presentation, The Perils of Minimalism: The War on Terror and the Constitutional Claims of Guantanamo Prisoners,will be held in the Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union. It is free and open to the public, followed by a reception.

Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Educated at Dartmouth, Oxford, and Harvard, he clerked for Thurgood Marshall (when Marshall was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) and later for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Fiss also served in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Before joining the faculty at Yale, he taught at the University of Chicago. Currently he teaches procedure, legal theory, and Constitutional law and has written many articles and books on these subjects. Among the most recent are Troubled Beginning of the Modern State, Liberalism Divided, The Irony of Free Speech, A Community of Equals, A Way Out/America’s Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism, Adjudication and its Alternatives (with Judith Resnik), and The Law as it Could Be. Fiss also directs extensive programs in Latin America and the Middle East at Yale Law School.

September 5, 2007