David Kirp , a Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of CA, Berkeley, and Stanley N. Katz , Faculty Chair of the Undergraduate Program, Director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and Director of the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars (Feb 25, 2008 at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) David Kirp is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. A former newspaper editor as well as an academic, his interests range widely across social policy. He has written on a wide array of topics, including education, race and gender discrimination, housing, AIDS, and civil liberties.  He is currently focusing on the nationwide movement for universal preschool and its larger political implications. Kirp is the author of The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics (Harvard University Press, 2007). Stanley Katz is president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He is also a commentator on higher education policy. Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, Katz is a scholar of American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions. He is the editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States and of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Legal History (OUP, 2007). The author and editor of numerous books and articles, he has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and as vice president of the Research Division of the American Historical Association.

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