Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago law professor and renowned constitutional law expert and author, will discuss civil liberties during wartime in the third annual Philip Pro Lectureship in Legal History at UNLV on February 5.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 7 p.m. in Room 102 of the Boyd School of Law. A public reception will follow.

Stone, who has been a member of the University of Chicago law faculty since 1973, also served as dean of the Law School from 1987 to 1993 and as university provost from 1993 to 2002. His most recent book, "Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism," has received both the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the Best Book of the Year in History.

In addition to his service to the University of Chicago, Stone has also served as a law clerk to Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States.