VOL. 23, NO. 23	MAY 20, 1998

ix Columbia faculty members were elected recently to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are:

• Vincent A. Blasi, the Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties;

• Louis E. Brus, professor of chemistry;

• Ainslie T. Embree, professor emeritus of history;

• Jack Greenberg, professor of law;

• Robert A. Mundell, professor of economics, and

• Jeremy J. Waldron, the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law.

  They were elected Fellows Apr. 17 and will be formally inducted Oct. 3 in ceremonies at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Membership recognizes distinguished contributions to science, scholarship, public affairs and the arts. The six new members bring the total of current Columbia faculty in the Academy to 102.

  Blasi has taught constitutional law and torts at Columbia Law School since 1983 and has written extensively about freedom of speech and other First Amendment topics. He also teaches in the Journalism School. His publications include Press Subpoenas: An Empirical and Legal Analysis; Law and Liberalism in the 1980s, and The Burger Court: The Counter-Revolution That Wasn’t.

  Brus, a physical chemist, joined Columbia in 1996 after 23 years of chemistry and materials research at Bell Laboratories. His studies focus on the transition region between a large molecule and a microscopic semiconducting crystal, with the goal of achieving insights needed to invent new, useful electronic materials.

  Embree is an authority on the history and culture of India and recently served as special assistant to the American ambassador in New Delhi. On the Columbia faculty since 1972 and an emeritus professor since 1991, he was associate and acting dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, director of the Southern Asian Institute and chairman of the history department. He edited the Encyclopedia of Asian History and is working now on a history of modern India.

  Greenberg is the prominent human rights advocate who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954 that declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional. He is also the former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and former dean of Columbia College. He has taught at the Law School since 1970.

  Mundell, known as a supply-side economist, is a long-time supporter of lower tax rates and an authority on monetary policy and world trade. A Columbia professor since 1974, he wrote the book International Economics in 1968 and this year will publish Gold and Inflation in the History of the International Monetary System. He wrote recently that the introduction of the euro may be the most important event in the international monetary system in almost 80 years.

  Waldron, at Columbia Law since 1997, is an eminent legal philosopher and authority on theories of legislation, and theories of property and rights. He is director of the school’s new Center for Law and Philosophy. His books include Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981-91; Nonsense Upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man, and The Right to Private Property.