Hate Crimes: Responding to Hate Crime

FREDERICK LAWRENCE is the Dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is the author of Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes Under American Law, which examines bias-motivated violence and how the United States deals with such crimes. He has written widely in the areas of civil rights crimes and free expression, and he has co-authored a number of Supreme Court amicus curiae briefs, including the brief on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League, People for the American Way and a wide-range of other civil rights groups in Virginia v. Black (2003), concerning the constitutionality of the Virginia cross-burning statutes. He has been a senior visiting research fellow with the University College London Faculty of Law and has studied bias crimes law in the United Kingdom through a Ford Foundation grant.