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Visiting Faculty for 2012-13
Beverly Moran is the James and Mary Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professor, in residence at the College of Law for the Fall 2012 semester. Professor Moran is a faculty member at the Vanderbilt University School of Law. She is a leading tax scholar whose work includes a path-breaking analysis of the disparate impact of the federal tax code on blacks and an innovative text on the taxation of charities and other exempt organizations. Her research interests also include law and development, interdisciplinary scholarship, and comparative law. Professor Moran has won a number of teaching awards and grants, including a Fulbright award, a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and a grant from the Ford Foundation.
At the University of Kentucky she is teaching Taxation I and presented the Lassiter Conference on “Lawyering in the Public Interest” in September 2012.
William Wiecek is Professor of Law Emeritus at Syracuse University College of Law. Professor Wiecek practiced law in New Hampshire and taught legal and constitutional history at the University of Missouri-Columbia for 16 years before coming to Syracuse. He has written or edited seven books, as well as numerous articles and chapters, on slavery and its abolition, republicanism, nineteenth-century constitutional development, nuclear power, and the United States Supreme Court. He has written a history of the United States Supreme Court from 1941 to 1953, covering the chief-justiceships of Harlan Fiske Stone and Fred Vinson, for the Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. He has taught courses in legal and constitutional history, constitutional law, property, race and law, corporations, civil procedure, and Roman law. He holds a joint appointment as Professor of History in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Professor Wiecek received the University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award in 1997 and in 2001 the Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement, the university's highest academic award.
Professor Wiecek previously came to UK as the Inaugural Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professor in 2011. With family in the area, he is glad to return to the University of Kentucky for the Spring 2013 semester to teach Constitutional Law I and II.
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