
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003152440
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

BORK PLANS TO TEACH AT GMU

The George Mason University School of Law, in its latest big-name faculty recruitment, has announced that former federal appeals Judge Robert Bork will begin teaching at the Arlington, Va., campus this fall.

Bork, whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate in 1987, will teach one class of constitutional law each semester to about 40 second- and third-year students.

Bork's appointment is the most recent of George Mason's efforts, under the leadership of law school Dean Henry G. Manne, to transform itself from a relatively obscure state institution located in a converted department store to a cutting-edge academy that has caught the attention of the nation's legal establishment. With his arrival in 1986, Manne set out to rebuild the 11-year-old school nearly from the ground up.

GMU has the reputation of being a haven for conservative legal scholars, including federal appeals Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, another would-be Supreme Court justice, several Reagan administration veterans and now Bork.

- The Washington Post

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