DISTINGUISHED VISITOR PROGRAM
Pursuant to
its historic purpose
of promoting excellence in legal scholarship, The Order of
the
Coif sponsors a program that enables chapters
to bring distinguished members of the legal
profession
to their campuses. Each year the Executive
Committee will invite one or more
distinguished
judges, academics, or practitioners to
visit several law schools that have established
Coif
chapters. The Distinguished Visitor spends two days
at each of the institutions he or she
visits,
participating in classroom lectures and seminars,
meeting informally with faculty and student
groups,
and giving one address open to the entire academic
community. The purpose of the program
is to
contribute to the intellectual life of the campus
by fostering an exchange of ideas with individuals
whose
experiences and ideas may be expected to stimulate
discussion about important issues
confronting
the legal profession.
The Distinguished Visitor Program replaced the Lecture Series in 2004.
Coif Distinguished Visitor 2013
The Executive Committee takes great pleasure
in announcing that that Professor Kenji Yoshino will
serve as
the 2012 Coif Distinguished Visitor.
Kenji Yoshino
Kenji
Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional
Law at NYU School of Law.
He was educated at Harvard (B.A. 1991), Oxford (M.Sc. 1993 as a
Rhodes Scholar), and Yale Law School
(J.D. 1996). After clerking for Judge Guido Calabresi on the
Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, he
taught at Yale Law School from 1998 to 2008. At that institution,
he served as Deputy Dean (2005-06) and
became the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor in 2006. His
fields are constitutional law, anti-
discrimination law, and law and literature.
Professor
Yoshino's first book, Covering the
Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights was published in 2006.
It
won several awards and was assigned as the "first year" book to be read
by all incoming students at four
colleges. His second book, A
Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About
Justice, was published in 2011. His third book, on same-sex
marriage is under contract with Crown, a
division of Random House.
Yoshino
has published in a range of academic journals, including The Columbia Law Review, The Harvard
Law Review, The Stanford Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal. He has
also written for more popular
forums including The Los Angeles
Times, The New York Times
and The Washington Post.
He makes
regular appearances on various radio and television programs, such as
NPR's The Takeaway and PBS's
Charlie Rose and a variety of
shows on MSNBC. In 2011 he was elected to the Harvard Board of
Overseers.
Any school with a chapter of
The Order of the Coif may host a distinguished visitor Priority
will
be given
to those institutions that do not have extensive
resources
on which to draw for similar programs or that for
other reasons may have difficulty in doing so and which
have not recently hosted a distinguished visitor.
OBLIGATION OF HOST SCHOOL
The national office of the Order
will provide an honorarium for the Coif Distinguished Visitor and will
pay
for his or her transportation to the host school. The
host school is responsible for the expense of his or her
meals, lodging, and local transportation. In addition,
the host school undertakes to provide publicity for the
Visitor's lecture sufficient to bring it to the
attention
of all segments of the campus, the local professional
community, including bench, bar, and law students.
INVITATIONS
The national
office of the Order issues invitations to the Distinguished Visitor and
posts information
about the visitors on this
website.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA
1. The Distinguished
Visitors for the following academic year will be selected and chapters
notified during the summer.
2. Applications
to host a Coif Lecture should be submitted by October 15. The
national office, in
consultation with the Visitor,
will then arrange a series of visits from among the schools that have
expressed an interest.
Applicant
schools should not communicate directly with the Distinguished Visitor.
Designated host schools will be notified of their
selection in November.
3. Applications for designation
as host school for a Coif Distinguished Visitor must be in writing and
contain:
> Name(s) of proposed host school(s);Since the visits must be arranged for a time compatible with the Visitors other obligations, it is
> Proposed dates (see below);
> Statement of any special reasons this application should be granted (e.g., special
anniversary of the school, etc.)
Host School: _____________________________________________________________________APPLICATION TO HOST A
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
Joint
Host: ______________________________________________________________________
Name
of Distinguished Visitor Sought: ________________________________________________
Proposed Dates (Include as many potential dates as possible for maximum flexibility)
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Special Reason this Application Should Be Granted:
Dean's
Statement: I am acquainted
with the obligations of a school undertaking the sponsorship
of an Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor and state
that the applicant school is willing and able to
discharge these obligations.
Dean____________________________________________________
School
___________________________________________________
Date _____________________________________________________
DEADLINE: October 15
RETURN TO: Laura N.
Gasaway
National Secretary-Treasurer
The Order of the Coif
University of North Carolina
Law Library, CB # 3385
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3385
OR ATTACH AS EMAIL MESSAGE: laura_gasaway@unc.edu
And forward Dean's
statement, signature and date by
regular
mail.