Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood will deliver the inaugural Philip Pro Lectureship in Legal History, "The Origins of American Constitutionalism," on Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. in UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law.

Wood, the Alva O. Way Professor of History at Brown University, is considered the pre-eminent historian of the American Revolution. He won the American Historical Association's Bancroft and John H. Dunning Prizes for "The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787," and won a Pulitzer Prize in history for his 1993 book, "The Radicalism of the American Revolution." Wood's most recent work, "The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin," was released in 2004.

The lecture is sponsored by the William S. Boyd School of Law and will be held in Room 102 of the Boyd School of Law. A reception will follow in Room 203. The event is free and open to the public.