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Williams Institute Visiting Scholars

	Ed Stein, 2007 Williams Institute Visiting Scholar Professor Stein is visiting the Williams Institute as its fourth Visiting Scholar and will be on campus for the fall semester. He comes to us from Cardozo School of Law in New York, where he specializes in family law, sexuality, gender and the law, bioethics. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, Professor Stein taught in the philosophy departments at Yale University, Mount Holyoke College, and New York University. In 2001-02, he clerked for Judge Dolores Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is the author of numerous articles and books on legal, philosophical, and scientific topics, including The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation and Without Good Reason: The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. His current research focuses on issues at the intersection of family law and sexual orientation, gender and the law. He maintains a Web site at http://www.edstein.com/.
	Yuval Merin, 2004 Williams Institute Visiting Scholar Professor Yuval Merin, the third Williams Institute Visiting Scholar, will be on the UCLA School of Law campus as part of the Williams Institute faculty during the 2004 spring semester in order to continue his research and writing on gender, sexuality and the law. Professor Merin received an LL.B. (J.D. equivalent, 1993) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Masters of Laws, with a concentration in International and Constitutional Law (1997), and a Doctor of Judicial Science (2000), both from New York University School of Law.
	Peter Kar Yu Kwan, 2003 Williams Institute Visiting Scholar Professor Peter Kwan visited the UCLA School of Law campus as part of the Willliams 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 Bachelors 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.
	David B. Cruz, 2003 Williams Institute Visiting Scholar Professor David B. Cruz is the Williams Institute's first Visiting Scholar. Professor Cruz will be on the UCLA School of Law campus as part of the Williams Institute's faculty during the 2003 spring semester in order to continue his research and writing on sexual orientation law and public policy issues. Professor Cruz received both a B.S. in Mathematics (1988) and a B.A. in Drama (1988) from UC Irvine; an M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University; and a J.D. (1994) from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root Tilden Snow Scholar.