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NEWS & EVENTS
High Point's Department of History to Host
Renowned Legal Scholar (October
2006).
Michael I. Krauss, Professor of Law at George Mason
Univer sity, will
meet with classes and deliver a public talk at
11:00
am, October 10. His lecture will discuss
his recent article in Commentary, which examined Israel's
right to set its own borders. His visit is co-sponsored by the
Department of History, the Honors Program, and
the Pre-law Society.
Professor
Krauss
has been teaching at George Mason since 1987, where
he was named the law school's first-ever "Teacher of the Year" in
1994. He previously taught at the law schools of Seattle
University, the University of Toronto, and the Université de
Sherbrooke in Canada.
He holds advanced degrees from
Université de Sherbrooke and Yale University.
He was Columbia University's Law and Economics Fellow in 1981
and was hired as a law clerk by Justice Louis-Philippe Pigeon
of Canada's Supreme Court. Before entering
academia, Professor Krauss practiced law for Quebec City's
largest law firm and also served for five
years on Quebec's Human Rights Commission.
Professor Krauss sits on the advisory boards of several think tanks
and holds appointments as both a
Salvatori Fellow of the Heritage Foundation and an Academic Fellow of
the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. He or his op-eds have
appeared in varied electronic media (including CNN, C-Span, Fox News,
National Public Radio, National Review Online, Voice of America, C.B.C.,
and Radio-Canada).
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