TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Akhil Reed Amar, Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will present the Daniel J. Meador Lecture at The University of Alabama School of Law Monday, Oct. 23, at 2 p.m. in room 187 of the law school.

Amar is the author of "The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction," an examination of the origins and interpretations of the Bill of Rights as an aggregate portion of the Constitution, rather than as a collection of individual clauses. A graduate of Yale Law School and former editor of the Yale Law Journal, Amar has been with the Yale law faculty since 1985.

Established in 1994, the Meador Lecture is named for Daniel J. Meador, the UA School of Law's former professor and dean, a member of the UA Law Class of 1951 and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia School of Law.