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Sanford Levinson |
Internationally renowned constitutional law scholar
Sanford V. Levinson, a chaired professor at the University
of Texas School of Law, will deliver the 99th Sibley Lecture March 28
at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Levinson’s lecture, “Constitutional
Norms in a State of Permanent Emergency,” is open free to
the public.
Levinson, who joined the University of Texas law faculty in 1980,
holds the school’s W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood
Jr. Centennial Chair in Law. He also holds a faculty appointment
in the University of Texas department of government. He has written
several books and more than 200 articles. His book Constitutional
Faith won the 1989 Scribes Award, an honor given annually to
top works of legal scholarship. He has also authored Written
in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies and Wrestling
With Diversity.
Levinson received his undergraduate degree at Duke, his doctorate
at Harvard and his juris doctor at Stanford. Before joining the
faculty at Texas, he was a professor in the Princeton department
of politics. He has also served as a visiting law professor at Harvard,
Yale, New York and Boston universities as well as the University
of Paris II, the Central European University in Budapest and Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
The Sibley Lecture Series, established in 1964 by the Charles Loridans
Foundation of Atlanta in tribute to the late John A. Sibley, is
designed to attract outstanding legal scholars of national prominence
to the School of Law. Sibley was a 1911 graduate of the law school.
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