Akhil Reed Amar, a Yale University law professor, will discuss jury reform when he gives the seventh annual Edward L. Barrett Jr. Lecture on Constitutional Law at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the Moot Court Room of the University of California, Davis, law school. Amar, the Southmayd Professor of Law at the Yale Law School, will address ways to improve the current U.S. jury system in his lecture, "Reinventing Juries: Ten Suggested Reforms." The lecture is free and open to the public. Amar has authored many articles on constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, criminal procedure and American legal history, and is currently working on a book on the Bill of Rights. He was the 1993 recipient of the Federalist Society's Paul M. Bator Award, and has delivered endowed lectures at DePaul University, the University of Texas, the University of Colorado, Drake University, Columbia University, the University of Virginia and others. Amar grew up in Walnut Creek, Calif., and received his bachelor's degree in 1980 from Yale University, where he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D. degree in 1984 from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. After clerking for Judge Stephen Breyer in 1984-85, he began teaching at Yale Law School. He became a full professor in 1990, and received the Southmayd Chair in 1993. Last year, he served as the Samuel Rubin visiting professor at Columbia Law School. The UC Davis law school lecture is an endowed lectureship established in 1986 in honor of Edward L. Barrett Jr., the law school's founding dean. The evening brings renowned scholars to King Hall to discuss recent developments in various areas of constitutional law. Barrett is a nationally renowned constitutional law and criminal procedure scholar and teacher. He has published two books, one of which is his widely used "Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials." A reception will be held after the lecture. This lectureship is approved for minimum continuing legal education credit by the State Bar of California.