"The Rights of Parents and States in Children's Education" is the topic of a lecture to be given at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. James S. Coleman, a professor of sociology and education at the University of Chicago, will deliver the lecture in the law school's Moot Court Room. The lecture, free and open to the public, is part of a series of campus lectures commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. The series is sponsored by the UC Davis Institute of Governmental Affairs and the law school. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1973, Coleman had been associate professor in the Department of Social Relations at Johns Hopkins University since 1959. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and a Guggenheim Fellow. He has received honorary doctorates from Purdue University, the State University of New York and SUNY Albany, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Southern California, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Coleman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosphical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His books include "Public and Private High Schools: The Impact of Communities" (1987), "Foundations of Social Theory" (1990) and "Equality and Achievement in Education" (1990).