William M. Wiecek

Law and history educator

Born Jan. 31,1938, Cleveland (OH), U.S.; son of Michael and Mary (Kotecki); children: Michael, Sophie, Kristen.

Education: Bachelor of Arts (A.B.), Catholic University of America, Washington (DC), 1959; Bachelor of Law (LL.B.), Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), 1962; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1968.

Career: associate attorney, Snierson and Chandler, Laconia (NH), 1962-64; legal editor, Equity Publishing Corporation, Orford (NH), 1964-65; assistant prof., 1968-71, associate prof., 1971-77, prof., 1977-84, History Department, University of Missouri - Columbia; prof. (law and history), Chester A. Congdon Chair, Public Law and Legislation, Syracuse University (NY), 1985 -.

Author: The Guarantee Clause of the U.S. Constitution, 1972; The Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848, 1977; Equal Justice Under Law; Constitutional Development, 1835-1875 (booklet), 1985; Liberty under Law: The Supreme Court in American Life, 1988; co-author (with Gerard H. Clarfield), Nuclear America: Military and Civilian Nuclear Power in the United States, 1940-1980, 1985, (with Kermit L. Hall and Paul Finkelman), American Legat History; Cases and Materials, 1991; co-editor, Oxford Companion to the United States Supreme Court, 1992; numerous conference papers, book chapters and articles in professional journals.

Member of: American Law Institute; American Society for Legal History; Selden Society; Organization of American Historians; American Bar Association (ABA); emergency medical technician, firefighter, Volunteer Fire Department, Fayetteville.

Honors: Phi Beta Kappa.

Served with: United States Naval Reserve (USNR), lieutenant, 1966-68.

Affiliation: Democrat. Roman Catholic.

Languages: English, French, Polish, German, Latin.

Home: 137 Stanwood Lane, ManIius, NY 13104.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.