Lectureship in Politics and Law to feature Ian Shapiro
Education Desk
April 10, 2009
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, will deliver the 2009 installment of the Lectureship in Politics and Law on April 16 at the TU College of Law. The 7:30 p.m. lecture, entitled "The Constitutional Politics of Abortion in the United States," is free and open to the public.
Shapiro also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a past fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
A native South African, Shapiro earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his Ph.D. in political science, also from Yale. He has taught in Yale´s political science department since 1984 and served as department chair from 1999 to 2004. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and Nuffield College at Oxford (England).
The Lectureship in Law and Politics highlights the meeting points of political science and the law in academic work. Lecturers in the series speak on issues of great political importance, analyzing the impact on the law and society.
Shapiro also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a past fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
A native South African, Shapiro earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his Ph.D. in political science, also from Yale. He has taught in Yale´s political science department since 1984 and served as department chair from 1999 to 2004. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and Nuffield College at Oxford (England).
The Lectureship in Law and Politics highlights the meeting points of political science and the law in academic work. Lecturers in the series speak on issues of great political importance, analyzing the impact on the law and society.
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