Columbia scholar to deliver Roscoe Pound lecture Jan. 26

Jeremy Waldron, university professor and director of the Center for Law and Philosophy at the Columbia University Law School will deliver the 2006 Roscoe Pound Lecture at the University of Nebraska College of Law.

His lecture, "Safety, Security and Public Goods with Structure," will begin at noon Jan. 26 in the auditorium of Ross McCollum Hall, East Campus Loop and Fair Street. It is free and open to the public.

Waldron's books include "The Right to Private Property" (1988), "Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981-1991" (1993), "The Dignity of Legislation" (1999), "Law and Disagreement" (1999) and "God, Locke and Equality" (2002). He is the author of more than 100 published articles and essays in legal and political philosophy. As university professor, he has Columbia's highest faculty rank.

A native of New Zealand, Waldron was educated in law and philosophy at the University of Otago in that country, received his doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Oxford in England, and received honorary doctorates from the University of Otago and the Catholic University of Brussels (Belgium). He has delivered invited lectures at Cambridge, Oxford and Stanford universities and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Waldron was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

The 2006 Pound Lecture is presented in cooperation with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics.

The Pound Lecture is named for the University of Nebraska alumnus and Lincoln native who became one of the nation's leading experts on jurisprudence as dean of the Harvard Law School.

CONTACT: Glenda Pierce, Assoc. Dean, Law, (402) 472-2161