Howard, Dick

A. E. Dick Howard is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Richmond.  A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, he was a law clerk to Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black of the Supreme Court of the United States.  His books include The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and Constitutionalism in America, Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia (which won a Phi Baeta Kappa prize), and Democracy's Dawn.  He was the chief architect of Virginia's present Constitution and directed the successful referendum campaign for its ratification.  Professor Howard has compared notes with constitution-makers in such places as Brazil, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Albania.  The Union of Czech Lawyers, citing Professor Howard's "promotion of the idea of a civil society in Central Europe," awarded him their Randa Medal -- the first this honor had been conferred upon anyone but a Czech citizen.  Five universities, including Wake Forest University and the College of William and Mary, have conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.  In 1994, Washingtonian magazine named him as "one of he most respected educators in the nation."