Alfred Avins

Alfred Avins (1935–1999) was an American lawyer, law professor, and dean.[1] He was educated at Columbia Law School, LLB, 1956, and the University of Chicago. His first book was The Law of AWOL (1957). He was best known as a staunch opponent of Civil Rights legislation; he was the author of numerous articles that criticized anti-discrimination legislation or sought to limit its scope. He was also the author of The Reconstruction Amendments' Debates: The Legislative History and Contemporary Debates in Congress on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments[2] (Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, 1967), which was designed to show the limited scope of the Reconstruction Amendments to support federal anti-discrimination legislation. It has proven a useful resource for some scholars looking into the history of the Reconstruction Amendments. In the 1970s he was a co-founder of the Delaware Law School. He unsuccessfully sued Delaware Law School in the 1980s.[3] In the 1980s a co-founder of the Northern Virginia Law School. That also resulted in unsuccessful litigation in federal court.[4]