James P. Beckwith, Jr. - Professor
A.B., University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill; J.D., University of Chicago.

  A native of Warrenton, N.C., Professor Beckwith graduated from the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA. and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1974 he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School. After working for the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts and consulting for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C., in 1976 Professor Beckwith accepted a visiting appointment at the University of Miami School of Law.

  The following year he joined the faculty of the North Carolina Central University School of Law where he has taught Contracts, Sales and Secured Transactions, Commercial Paper, Agency-Partnership, Remedies and Consumer Protection. In 1982 he was selected as an Olive W. Garvey Fellow of the Mont Pelerin Society to attend its meeting in West Berlin. In 1994-95 Professor Beckwith taught Contracts at the University of North Carolina Law School. In the spring of 1995 he was awarded a university teaching award by North Carolina Central University.

  A long-time member of the Business Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, he presently serves as Treasurer and as editor of its quarterly newsletter. In recent years Professor Beckwith has pursed an avocation of summer study of architectural history.

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