Lowry Wyman
Co-founder with Barnabas D. Johnson of the Jurlandia Institute
Lowry Wyman was born in 1950 in Grafton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. She received a J.D. Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978; an M.A. from Harvard University in Regional Studies - USSR, in 1975; and a B.A. with honors from Middlebury College in 1971, under whose auspices she spent her first year at the University of Besançon in Besançon, France, and the first semester of her senior year at the University of Leningrad, in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). She is fluent in Russian and French. From 1988 to 1993, she was a Fellow at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University, where she engaged in research, writing, and consulting on constitutional, legal, and judicial reforms in the USSR, the Baltic States, and the republics of the CIS.
She is married to Barnabas D. Johnson. They have worked together since 1989 on Soviet and post-Soviet law reform, legal-education reform, and "democracy building" in the CIS. She participated in creating and managing the Department of Law at the American University of Armenia, 1998-2003, where she served as Professor of Law. This law department offered the first English-language, post-graduate law curriculum in the CIS, leading to masters degrees in law (LL.M.) and comparative legal studies (M.C.L.S.).
In 1989, Professor Wyman, then a Fellow of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University, translated into English Academician Andrei D. Sakharov's proposed Constitution of the Union of Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia, which he drafted shortly before his death. See Translation. Accompanying that translation was her Commentary. That translation and commentary are published Ab Imperio Quarterly (2005), pp. 361-379.
Professor Wyman is the author of the Russian version of the Constitution of Jurlandia.
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