FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OLC MONDAY, JULY 1, 1996 (202) 616-2765 TDD (202) 514-1888 SCHROEDER HEADS OLC WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Christopher H. Schroeder, a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Special Counsel in the Office of Legal Counsel, today assumed the post of acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel, the Department of Justice announced. Schroeder, currently a professor of law and public policy at Duke University and co-chair of the Center for the Study of the Congress at Duke Law School, had served in the two OLC positions since 1993. He takes over the duties of Walter E. Dellinger, who today assumed the position of acting Solicitor General. A graduate of Princeton University, Schroeder received his law degree from the University of California School of Law in 1974. He was Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee from July 1992 through February 1993. Schroeder, who has taught at Duke since 1979, is a specialist in administrative law, environmental law and constitutional law. OLC assists the Attorney General in the role of legal advisor to the President and executive branch agencies on constitutional and statutory issues. ##### 96-318