A.E. Dick Howard, White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia School of Law, will deliver the Sandra Day O'Connor Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 6. The talk will be at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Greensboro.
Howard is widely acknowledged as an expert in the fields of constitutional law, comparative constitutionalism, and the Supreme Court. After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black of the Supreme Court of the United States. Active in public affairs, Howard was executive director of the commission that wrote Virginia’s current constitution and directed the successful referendum campaign for its ratification. Often consulted by constitutional draftsmen in other states and abroad, Professor Howard has compared notes with revisers at work on new constitutions in Brazil, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Albania, Malawi, and South Africa.
Howard will also teach a Winter Term course on the impact of American constitutionalism on foreign countries and cultures.