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This issue of the Stanford Law Review is dedicated to Paul Brest, who ended his twelve-year tenure as dean of Stanford Law School this summer. Paul Brest joined the Stanford faculty in 1969, after clerking for Justice John M. Harlan of the United States Supreme Court. Before that he had spent two years as a civil rights attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund in Jackson, Mississippi, and had been a law clerk to Chief Judge Bailey Aldrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. From 1983 to 1987, Brest served Stanford as Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law. Since 1987, Brest has been the Dean and Richard E. Lang Professor. Brest spent the fall semester at New York University School of Law, designing curricular materials to enhance the teaching of leaders in law...

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