WHAT:	Public lecture on the current debate on funding of higher education and its impact on students and programs in the United Kingdom entitled, "Barbarians at the Gates of Oxford: A View from the City Wall," by Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, Oxford. Sponsored by the Higher Education Association.
WHEN:	Tuesday, March 24, 1998 5:30 p.m.
WHERE:	The George Washington University Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre 801 21st Street, NW
COST:	Free and open to the public.

BACKGROUND:

Robert Stevens is master of Pembroke College, Oxford. He serves as counsel to Covington & Burling (London office) where his practice involves international commercial law and competition law. He is chair of the Marshall Aid Memorial Commission ( the governing body of the Marshall Scholars Program). Also a governor of Abingdon School, he is a member of the research Committee of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the Council of Justice.

Stevens has held a number of administrative appointments previously, including provost of Tulane University (1976-78), president of Haverford College (1978-87) and chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1987-91). His academic appointments have included those at Yale University, fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and professor of law; Tulane University , professor of law and adjunct professor of history; and the University of California, Santa Cruz, fellow of Cowell College and professor of history.

A graduate of Keble College, Oxford, Stevens received a BA in jurisprudence, BCL, MA and DCL degrees there. He also earned an LLM from Yale University. Stevens holds a number of honorary degrees and has authored many articles and books, including studies of competition law, commercial law, social legislation and the legal profession and judiciary in the U.S. and the U.K.

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