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The James Madison Society is an international community of scholars whose research contributes significantly to civic education in institutions of higher learning. Members of the Society share the belief of James Madison that only a well-instructed people can be permanently free.  They also share a commitment to instill within rising generations an appreciation of the common good and the moral foundations of democratic governance. The Society provides a forum through which scholars who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in constitutional law, political thought, and related fields, can engage in intensive discussions about their research and teaching.

BOARD OF CONSULTING SCHOLARS
Hadley Arkes, Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions, Amherst College
Gerard V. Bradley, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago
John M. Finnis, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, and Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy, Oxford University
Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University
Leon Kass, Addie Clark Harding Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, Harvard University
Gilbert C. Meilaender, Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University
David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
Daniel Robinson, Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University; and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
James Q. Wilson, Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University; Professor Emeritus of Management, UCLA; Chairman, Board of Academic Advisors, AEI

MEMBERS OF THE JAMES MADISON SOCIETY
John T. Agresto, Former Acting Chancellor and Provost, American University of Iraq in Sulaimani; and former President, St. John’s College in Santa Fe
William B. Allen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Michigan State University
Hadley Arkes, Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions, Amherst College
J. Jackson Barlow, Charles A. Dana Professor of Politics, Juniata College
Mark W. Bauerlein, Professor of English, Emory University
Francis J. Beckwith, Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies, Baylor University
Herman Belz, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland
Matthew Berke, Senior Fellow, Faith and Reason Institute
Mark Blitz, Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of Research, Claremont McKenna College
Joseph M. Boyle, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Gerard V. Bradley, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University
Stanley C. Brubaker, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Colgate University
Andrew E. Busch, Crown Professor of Government, George R. Roberts Fellow, and Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, Claremont McKenna College
James W. Ceaser, Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia
J. Daryl Charles, Director and Senior Fellow, Bryan Institute for Critical Thought & Practice, Bryan College
Robert L. Clinton, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Angelo M. Codevilla, Professor of International Relations, Boston University
Thomas D'Andrea, Fellow in Philosophy, Wolfson College, Cambridge University
David Dalin, Adjunct Scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and Professor of History, Ave Maria College
Patrick J. Deneen, Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair Associate Professor of Government and Founding Director of the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy, Georgetown University
John J. Dinan, Professor of Political Science, Wake Forest University
Daniel L. Dreisbach, Professor in the School of Public Affairs, American University in Washington, D.C.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago
David Ericson, Term Associate Professor, Government & Politics, Public & International Affairs, George Mason University
Peter S. Field, Senior Lecturer in American History, University of Canterbury
John M. Finnis, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame and Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy, Oxford University
Rosario Forlenza, Visiting Scholar, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University
David F. Forte, Professor of Law, Cleveland State University
Matthew J. Franck, Director, William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, Witherspoon Institute 
Timothy Fuller, Lloyd E. Worner Distinguished Service Professor & Professor of Political Science, Colorado College
David M. Gallagher, Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Michael J. Gerhardt, Samuel Ashe Professor of Constitutional Law & Director of the Center on Law and Government, University of North Carolina School of Law
Alan R. Gibson, Professor of Political Science, California State University-Chico
Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University
Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Professor of History, and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College
Susan E. Hanssen, Associate Professor of History, University of Dallas
Sara M. Henary, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wake Forest University
Anne Hendershott, Professor of Urban Studies, The King’s College
Zena Hitz, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Matthew S. Holland, President, Utah Valley University
Carson L. Holloway, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Leon Kass, Addie Clark Harding Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Paul E. Kerry, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University
Ken I. Kersch, Founding Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and Associate Professor of Political Science, History, and Law, Boston College
Charles R. Kesler, Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College
Harvey Klehr, Andrew Mellon Professor of Politics and History, Emory University
Stephen M. Krason, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Michael I. Krauss, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Peter Augustine Lawler, Professor of Government and Chair, Government and International Studies, Berry College
Steven J. Lenzner, Henry Salvatori research fellow in political philosophy, Claremont McKenna College.
Alan M. Levine, Associate Professor of Government, American University, Washington, DC.
Joyce L. Malcolm, Professor of Legal History, George Mason University School of Law
Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, Harvard University
Catherine M.A. McCauliff, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
Wilfred M. McClay, SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities and Professor of History, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Gary L. McDowell, Tyler Haynes Interdisciplinary Professorship in Leadership Studies and Political Science, University of Richmond
Lawrence Mead, Professor of Politics, New York University
Gilbert C. Meilaender, Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University
Mark T. Mitchell, Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Political Theory Track, Patrick Henry College
Lucas E. Morel, Associate Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University
Michael P. Moreland, Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University
Paul D. Moreno, William and Bernice Grewcock Chair in the American Constitution, Hillsdale College
Jeffry Morrison, Associate Professor of Government, Regent University, and faculty member, James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, Washington, D.C.
John D. Mueller, Director of the Economics and Ethics Program, Ethics and Public Policy Center; and President, LBMC, LLC
Vincent Phillip Munoz, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Michael J. New, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Alabama
David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
Alberto Nones, Visiting Professor, United Arab Emirates University
Jack Wade Nowlin, Jessie D. Puckett, Jr., Lecturer in Law and Associate Professor of Law, University of Mississippi
Marvin Olasky, Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy, Patrick Henry College
Fabrice Paradis-Béland, Adjunct Faculty, Villanova Center for Liberal Education, Villanova University
Dennis Patterson, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University School of Law
Alan Cecil Petigny, Associate Professor of History, University of Florida
Daniel Philpott, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Saikrishna B. Prakash, David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law and Sullivan & Cromwell Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law 
Dermot A. Quinn, Professor of History & Graduate Program Director, Seton Hall University
Daniel N. Robinson, Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University
Richard A. Samuelson, Assistant Professor of History, California State University
Cristóbal Orrego Sánchez, Profesor de Filosofía Jurídica y Política, Universidad de los Andes (Chile)
Roger Scruton, Professor of Philosophy, University of Buckingham
Colleen Sheehan, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University
Darren M. Staloff, Professor of History, The City College of New York and the City University of New York
Sarah L. Staszak, Assistant Professor of Political Science, City College of New York
James R. Stoner, Jr., Professor of Political Science, Louisiana State University
Michael Sugrue, Professor of History, Ave Maria University
Seana Sugrue, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ave Maria Univeristy
Carol M. Swain, Professor of Political Science and Law, Vanderbilt University
Steven Teles, Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
C. Bradley Thompson, BB&T Research Professor, Clemson University, and Executive Director, Clemson Capitalism Initiative
David Thunder, Visiting Assistant Professor, Villanova University
Christopher O. Tollefsen, Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina
Nicholas Troester, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duke University
Sebastien Viguier, 2007-08 Postdoctoral Fellow, James Madison Program
Joseph P. Viteritti, Blanche Davis Blank Professor of Public Policy, Hunter College, City University of New York
Bradley C.S. Watson, Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and Western Political Thought, and Fellow in Politics and Culture at the Center for Political and Econiomic Thought, Saint Vincent College
Micah J. Watson, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for Religion and Politics, Union University
Derek A. Webb, Georgetown Law School
Thomas G. West, Professor of Politics, Hillsdale College; Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute
Peter Wicks, Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethics, Villanova University
W. Bradford Wilcox, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
Catherine E. Wilson, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Non-Profit Coordinator of the Masters of Public Administration Program, Villanova University
James Q. Wilson, Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University; Professor Emeritus of Management, UCLA; Chairman, Board of Academic Advisors, American Enterprise Institute