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THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1997                         (202) 616-2765
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          DEVAL PATRICK TO SERVE AS VISITING PROFESSOR
                     AT STANFORD LAW SCHOOL
                                
     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Assistant Attorney General for Civil
Rights Deval L. Patrick, who leaves his post on Monday, will
become the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor at the Stanford Law
School in Palo Alto, California next month, the Justice
Department said today.  He will teach a course on current issues
in civil rights law for the Spring Term.

      "Our students and faculty are incredibly fortunate to have
this opportunity to benefit from Deval Patrick's experience and
wisdom," said Paul Brest, Dean of the law school.

     Previous Phleger Professors have included former Attorneys
General Nicholas Katzenbach and Edward Levi, former Soviet
President Michail Gorbachev, former Ireland President Mary
Robinson, Judges Leon Higgenbotham and Charles Wyzanski and
Historian John Hope Franklin.
    
     Patrick said, "I leave the Department in good hands and with
a clear civil rights mission.  I look forward to working with my
new colleagues and the young scholars at Stanford Law School."  
Patrick, who will teach two classes a week at Stanford, will
commute from Boston, where he expects to join a major law firm
early next month.

     Last November, Patrick announced that he would step down in
January as the nation's top civil rights law enforcement officer
to return home to his family in Boston.  He has served as the
Clinton Administration's top Civil Rights Law Enforcement Officer
for three years, and is credited with revitalizing the Civil
Rights Division in the Justice Department.
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