Fred Lawrence to speak at Shabbat Services at Jewish Center of the Hamptons

Frederick M. Lawrence, President of Brandeis University to speak at Shabbat Services

AT THE JEWISH CENTER ON SATURDAY, JULY 30TH AT 10:00 AM

East Hampton, NY – Frederick M. Lawrence, President of Brandeis University will be speaking at Shabbat Services on Saturday, July 30th at 10:00 a.m.

 Frederick M. Lawrence took office as the eighth president of Brandeis University on Jan. 1, 2011.

An accomplished scholar, teacher and attorney, Lawrence is one of the nation’s leading experts on civil rights, free expression and bias crimes. His formal inauguration took place on March 31.

Prior to Brandeis, Lawrence was dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School from 2005 to 2010. During his tenure there, Lawrence brought in the strongest five classes in the law school's history and led five of its most effective years of fundraising, despite historically challenging economic conditions. He recruited an impressive number of new faculty members with expertise in a range of areas, from international courts and tribunals to environmental law. Lawrence also increased financial aid, expanded facilities, opened doors to faculty endowments and sought new programmatic possibilities nationally and internationally.

Lawrence, a native of Long Island, N.Y., received a bachelor’s degree in 1977 from Williams College and a law degree in 1980 from Yale Law School. He began his legal career in 1980 as clerk to Judge Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Later, Lawrence was named an assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York, where he became chief of the Civil Rights Unit.

This is a free event and all are welcome.