Washington and Lee School of Law

Frederic Kirgis

Email: kirgisr@wlu.edu
Office: 452D Sydney Lewis Hall
Phone: 540-458-8532
Fax: 540-458-8488

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Frederic Lee E. Kirgis

Law Alumni Association Professor of Law, Emeritus

B.A. 1957, Yale University; J.D. 1960, University of California (Berkeley); Order of the Coif; Assistant Notes and Comments Editor, California Law Review.

Biography

Admitted to practice in Colorado and Virginia; judge advocate, U.S. Air Force, 1961-64; associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., 1964-67; Assistant Professor of Law, 1967-68, Associate Professor of Law, 1968-71, Professor of Law, University of Colorado, 1971-74; Professor of Law, U.C.L.A., 1974-78; Director, Frances Lewis Law Center and Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 1978-83; Visiting Professor of Law, University of Michigan, spring semester, 1983; Dean and Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 1983-88; Visiting Professor of Law, Cornell, fall semester, 1988; Visiting Professor of Law, University of Virginia, spring semester, 1989; Visiting Professor of Law, University of Georgia, spring semester, 1996; Visiting Professor of Law, Hastings, fall semester 1997; Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 1988-90; Law Alumni Association Professor, 1990-2005; Law Alumni Association Professor Emeritus, 2005-.

For the Media

Professor Kirgis is available to be interviewed on the following subjects:

• Foreign Affairs (governmental policy)
• International Law 

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