Bollinger, Lee C.

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BOLLINGER, Lee C.

BOLLINGER, Lee C. American, b. 1946. Genres: Law, Social commentary, Civil liberties/Human rights. Career: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, law clerk, 1971-72; U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, DC, law clerk to chief justice Warren E. Burger, 1972-73; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, assistant professor, 1973-76, associate professor, 1976-78, professor of law, 1979-, dean of Law School, 1987-94, president, 1997; Dartmouth College, provost, 1994-96. Davis-Markert-Nickerson Lecturer, 1992. Cambridge University, visiting associate of Clare Hall, 1983. College of William and Mary, George Wythe Lecturer, 1984; Capital University, John E. Sullivan Lecturer, 1988; Columbia University, Rubin Lecturer, 1989; Southern Methodist University, Atwell Lecturer in Constitutional Law, 1992. Publications: (with J. Jackson) Contract Law in Modern Society, 2nd ed., 1980; The Tolerant Society: Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in America, 1986; Images of a Free Press, 1991. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of articles and reviews to law journals. Address: President's Office, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1340, U.S.A. Online address: leecbol@umich.edu

Writers Directory 2005

lee

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lee / lē/ • n. shelter from wind or weather given by a neighboring object, esp. nearby land: we pitch our tents in the lee of a rock. ∎ (also lee side) the sheltered side; the side away from the wind: ducks were taking shelter on the lee of the island. Contrasted with weather.

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

Lee

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Lee or Alee, John (fl. 1487–d. 1522). English master-mason. With Wastell he was involved in the final phase of building at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, from 1506. He probably designed the Ramryge Chantry Chapel in St Alban's Cathedral, Herts. (c.1521).

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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture JAMES STEVENS CURL

lee

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lee1 protection, shelter OE.; sheltered side XIV. OE. hlēo, hlēow— = OS. hleo m., hlea fem., ON. hlé :- Gmc. *χlēw-, not known outside Gmc. The naut. sense was mainly from ON.
Hence leeward (on) the side turned away from the wind. XVI.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD