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Peter Kar Yu Kwan
2003 Williams Institute Visiting Scholar

Please join the Williams Institute in welcoming Professor Peter Kar Yu Kwan as the second Williams Institute Visiting Scholar. Professor Kwan will be on the UCLA School of Law campus as part of the Williams Institute faculty during the 2003 fall semester in order to continue his research and writing on critical race theory and sexual orientation law.

Professor Kwan received both a Bachelor of Laws (1986) and a Bachelor of Arts (1987) from the University of Sydney; a Master of Laws (1993) from Columbia University; and a Master of Laws (1999) with honors from University of Sydney.

Among his many academic distinctions is serving as the Articles and Associate Editor of both the Journal of Chinese Law and the Journal of Transnational Law at Columbia University. He has directed the Santa Clara University Summer Law Study Abroad Program in Hong Kong S.A.R./China and has worked as faculty at Boalt Hall School of Law at University of Berkeley, Santa Clara University School of Law, and University of Hong Kong. He is currently a visiting professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law.

In addition to receiving faculty recognition awards from the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association of Santa Clara University School of Law three times, Professor Kwan has received a distinguished service award from the Association of American Law Schools Minority Group Section in 2000. Actively involved in the Association of American Law Schools, he served as the Chair of the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Chair of the Section on Law and the Humanities. As part of the Santa Clara County Bar Association, he served as Chair of the Committee on Individual Rights and Constitutional Law, a member of the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Concerns, and Chair of the Immigration Law Section Executive Committee.

Professor Kwan's areas of teaching include contracts, constitutional law, comparative law, jurisprudence, critical race theory, and Asian Pacific Americans and the Law. His forthcoming publications include Metaphysics and Metaphors: Symbiosis and the Quest for Meaning (UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIKANSAS CITY L. REV.) and a review essay, co authored with Robert Chang, titled Civil War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (MICH L. R.).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Biography of a Disease: HIV/AIDS in South Africa, 35 J. MARSHALL L. REV. 388 (2002).
• Complicity and Complexity: On Cosynthesis and Praxis, 49 DEPAUL L. REV. 673 (2000).
• Invention, Inversion and Intervention: The Oriental Woman in The World of Suzie Wong, M. Butterfly and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 5 ASIAN L. J. 99 (1998).
• Jeffrey Dahmer and the Cosynthesis of Categories, 48 HASTINGS L. J. 1257 (1997).

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