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Frederick M. Lawrence
Frederick M. Lawrence (born 1955) is an American lawyer, civil rights scholar and 10th Secretary and CEO of Phi Beta Kappa society, the nation's first academic honor society, founded in 1776. Lawrence is a Distinguished Lecturer at the Georgetown Law Center, and has previously served as president of Brandeis University, Dean of the George Washington University Law School, and Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018 and the American Law Institute in 1999. Lawrence received the 2019 Ernest L. Boyer Award from the New American Colleges and Universities, and the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences’ Arts & Sciences Advocacy Award in 2018.
Lawrence was born in Port Washington, New York. He is the son of an engineer, Joseph Lawrence, who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and Beatrice Lawrence who chaired the English department at Port Washington High School (Paul D. Schreiber High School).
Lawrence graduated from Williams College Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1977, winning the William Bradford Turner Prize, the college's highest honor, and then graduated from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal in 1980.
He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Lawrence is married to Kathy Lawrence, an academic who specializes in 19th-century American literature. They have two children, Miriam and Noah.
Lawrence began his legal career in 1980 as clerk to Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Later, Lawrence served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he became chief of the Civil Rights Unit. During that time Lawrence served under Rudolph W. Giuliani who was the United States Attorney.
In 1988, he joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Law, where he taught courses on civil rights enforcement, criminal law, and civil procedure. He also served as the school's associate dean for academic affairs from 1996 to 1999. Lawrence received BU's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the university's highest teaching honor, in 1996.
Lawrence has been a senior visiting research fellow with the University College London Faculty of Laws and has studied bias crimes law in the United Kingdom through a Ford Foundation grant.
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Frederick M. Lawrence
Frederick M. Lawrence (born 1955) is an American lawyer, civil rights scholar and 10th Secretary and CEO of Phi Beta Kappa society, the nation's first academic honor society, founded in 1776. Lawrence is a Distinguished Lecturer at the Georgetown Law Center, and has previously served as president of Brandeis University, Dean of the George Washington University Law School, and Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018 and the American Law Institute in 1999. Lawrence received the 2019 Ernest L. Boyer Award from the New American Colleges and Universities, and the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences’ Arts & Sciences Advocacy Award in 2018.
Lawrence was born in Port Washington, New York. He is the son of an engineer, Joseph Lawrence, who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and Beatrice Lawrence who chaired the English department at Port Washington High School (Paul D. Schreiber High School).
Lawrence graduated from Williams College Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1977, winning the William Bradford Turner Prize, the college's highest honor, and then graduated from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal in 1980.
He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Lawrence is married to Kathy Lawrence, an academic who specializes in 19th-century American literature. They have two children, Miriam and Noah.
Lawrence began his legal career in 1980 as clerk to Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Later, Lawrence served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he became chief of the Civil Rights Unit. During that time Lawrence served under Rudolph W. Giuliani who was the United States Attorney.
In 1988, he joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Law, where he taught courses on civil rights enforcement, criminal law, and civil procedure. He also served as the school's associate dean for academic affairs from 1996 to 1999. Lawrence received BU's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the university's highest teaching honor, in 1996.
Lawrence has been a senior visiting research fellow with the University College London Faculty of Laws and has studied bias crimes law in the United Kingdom through a Ford Foundation grant.
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