Paul Brest, dean of Stanford University's law school, will address affirmative action issues in the 1993 Edward L. Barrett Jr. Lecture on Constitutional Law at the University of California, Davis, on March 18. Brest, who has a background in civil rights litigation, will discuss rationales for affirmative action in higher education, both for students and for faculty, in an address entitled "Diversity." He will also consider the issue of who should be included in affirmative action programs. The lecture will take place at noon on Thursday, March 18, in the Moot Courtroom in King Hall at the UC Davis School of Law. Brest has taught at Stanford University Law School for more than 20 years. His scholarship is in the area of constitutional law; he is the senior author of "Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking." Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Brest practiced law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. in Jackson, Miss. Later, he served as a law clerk to Justice John M. Harlan on the Supreme Court of the United States. The endowed lectureship was established in 1986 to mark the retirement of the UC Davis School of Law's founding dean, Edward L. Barrett Jr., and the school's 20th anniversary.