George P. Fletcher is widely celebrated as a scholar and public intellectual.  His fields are criminal law, constitutional law, and international affairs. His latest book, Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism, will be published in mid-November 2002. Michael Walzer describes the book “as a deep and engaging meditation. . .[for a lawyer] a wonderfully unlawyerly account, a philosophical investigation, of individual agency, responsibility, and guilt.”           Fletcher has published over one hundred scholarly articles and several books designed primarily for an academic audience. He is one of the most respected and widely cited professors of law in the United States. In November 2001 he delivered the prestigious Storrs lectures at the Yale Law School, and in 2003 the Notre Dame Law Review will publish a special issue devoted to his commentary about his work.               Not less important, however, are Fletcher’s books designed for a general audience, which have received widespread publicity, praise, and honors. These include:      Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy (Oxford 2001) was honored as the best book on law published in 2001.       With Justice for Some: Victims’ Rights in Criminal Trials (Addison Wesley 1995), quoted by Marsha Clark in the O.J. Simpson trial.     Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships (Oxford 1993), praised by William Safire twice in his column in the New York Times, translated in French, German, and Spanish.      A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial (Free Press 1988),  received the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, translated into German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.     Rethinking Criminal Law (Little Brown 1978) received the Order-of-Coif award as one of the best books published on law in the late 1970s [designed primarily for laywers, scholars, and judges].          In the last several years Fletcher has addressed large bodies of German criminal lawyers in Berlin (in German), of prosecutors and judges in Bogota (in Spanish) and the legal staff of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in the Hague (in English). On lecture tours in 2001, he typically delivered lectures in the local language in Mexico City, Basel, Paris, Warsaw, and Tel Aviv. Fletcher lectures, publishes, and does media spots in Russian, French, German, Hebrew, Spanish, Hungarian and Italian. He is widely praised as an a dynamic and inspiring lecturer – in most of his foreign languages as well as in English.               Fletcher’s diverse experience includes prosecuting cases in Los Angeles, running summer programs for Eastern European lawyers in Budapest, editing S’vara, a magazine on Jewish law philosophy, and appearing often on television as a pundit on legal issues, and moderating “socratic dialogues” on PBS. He has published dozens of oped pieces and longer articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post , the New Republic, and the New York Review of Books , as well as several recent online articles about current issues and the war policies of the Bush administration. These are easily found at http://www.findlaw.com and http://www.project-syndicate.org , the latter also published in dozens of foreign language newspapers around the world.            For a recent picture, see http://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/full_time_fac?&main.find=F, .

George P. Fletcher can be reached at GeoPFletcher@aol.com, or 212-854-2467 or at 646-483-8455.

 

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