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The Association of American Law Schools Announces William A. Galston to Give Keynote Luncheon Address
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- William Galston, Ezra K.
Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution,Washington, D.C., and former deputy assistant for domestic policy
to President Clinton, will give the keynote luncheon address at the
Association of American Law Schools (AALS) 2009 Annual Meeting inSan Diego.
Dr. Galston specializes in issues of American public philosophy and political
institutions.
After serving as a sergeant inthe United States Marine Corps and then
receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1973, Galston taught for
nearly a decade in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. In
the 1990s he served as deputy assistant for domestic policy to President
Clinton and later as executive director for the National Commission on Civic
Renewal. From 1998 until 2005 he was professor of public policy at the
University of Maryland. Formerly the Saul Stern Professor and dean at the
School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, he is the author of
eight books and more than one hundred articles on questions of political and
moral philosophy, American politics and public policy. His most recent book is
Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2005.)
The luncheon will occur on Thursday, January 8, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00
p.m. at the San Diego Marriott and Marina.
The entire AALS 2009 Annual Meeting program can be found on the
Association's Web site at http://www.aals.org/am2009. Members of the press are
invited to attend free of charge. Those interested in attending are asked to
notify Deborah Quick from January 6-10, 2009 at 619-645-6955. Press also may
register on-site at the AALS office located in the Manchester Room on the
North Tower/Lobby Level of the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina beginning
Tuesday after 6 p.m. January 6, 2009, and continuing through Saturday, January
10, 2009.
The Association of American Law Schools is a resource for the improvement
of the quality of legal education by networking law school faculty,
professional staff and deans to information and resources. AALS is the
principal representative of legal education to the federal government, other
national higher education organizations, learned societies and international
law schools.
SOURCE Association of American Law Schools
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