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UCLA School of Law Faculty Colloquia

Raising Questions about Lawrence, Sex Wars and Criminal Law

BERNARD HARCOURT
(University of Chicago School of Law)

Friday September 10, 2004
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
UCLA School of Law Library
4th Floor, Library Tower Room

Professor Harcourt’s scholarship focuses on issues of crime and punishment from an empirical and social theoretic perspective. His research intersects criminal law and procedure, police and punishment practices, political and social theory, and criminology. He is the author most recently of Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing, published by Harvard University Press in 2001. He is the editor and a contributing author to a collection of essays on Guns, Crime and Punishment in America, published by New York University Press in 2003. He is also currently working on a book manuscript on the topic of youths and guns.

Professor Harcourt earned his bachelor’s degree in political theory at Princeton University. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in political science in the Government Department at Harvard University in 2000. After law school, Professor Harcourt clerked for the Honorable Charles S. Haight, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then moved to Montgomery, Alabama to represent death row inmates on direct appeal, in state post-conviction, in federal habeas corpus, and at retrial. Professor Harcourt practiced at the Equal Justice Initiative (formerly known as the Alabama Capital Representation Resource Center) from 1990 to 1994, and has continued to represent several death row inmates pro bono since that time.

Professor Harcourt was appointed Senior Fellow in the Graduate Program at Harvard Law School from 1995 to 1997. During this time, he also served on human rights missions to South Africa and Guatemala, and pursued Ph.D. studies in political theory in the Government Department at Harvard University. Professor Harcourt was awarded his Ph.D. in June 2000. Professor Harcourt was on the faculty of the University of Arizona College of Law from 1998 to 2002, and was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (2001–2002) and New York University School of Law (Fall 2002).

This event is open to UCLA faculty and faculty from other universities and colleges in Southern California. To RSVP to this event, please call (310) 794-5192