Scholars
Dennis Goldford
Dr. Dennis Goldford is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Drake University in Iowa. He teaches in the areas of political theory and constitutional law, and his recent research deals with the originalism debate in contemporary constitutional theory. He has published numerous articles in the areas of political theory and constitutional interpretation, and his recent book is entitled The American Constitution and the Debate Over Originalism (Cambridge, 2005). His current research deals with politics and religion, and with the theory of federalism. Professor Goldford is also a frequent commentator on Iowa and national politics through both local and national media outlets.
Ken I. Kersch
Dr. Ken I. Kersch is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where he specializes in American political and constitutional development; American political thought; legal theory; and the politics of courts. Recipient of the Edward S. Corwin Prize from the American Political Science Association (2000), he has published articles in Political Science Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development, and others. He is the author of Freedom of Speech: Rights and Liberty Under the Law (ABC-Clio, 2003); Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and The Supreme Court and American Political Development (with Ronald Kahn: University Press of Kansas, 2006).
Gordon Lloyd
Dr. Gordon Lloyd is Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and political science at McGill University. The co-author of three books on the American founding and two publications on political economy, he also has numerous articles and book reviews to his credit. His areas of research i the California constitution, common law, the New Deal, slavery and the Supreme Court, and the relationship between politics and economics. He has received many teaching, research, and leadership awards including admission to Phi Beta Kappa and an appointment as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar for the Oklahoma Scholarship Leadership Program.
Ilya Somin
Ilya Somin is an Assistant Professor at the George Mason University School of Law. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy. Professor Somin previously served as the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Northwestern University Law School in 2002-2003. In 2001-2002, he clerked for the Hon. Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Somin earned his B.A., Summa Cum Laude, at Amherst College, M.A. in Political Science from Harvard University, and J.D. from Yale Law School. He will soon complete his Ph.D. at Harvard.
Warner Winborne
Dr. Warner Winborne is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where his particular areas of interest include Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Thomas Hobbes. The Executive Director for the Center for the Study of the Constitution, he specializes in the Fourth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. He has presented papers at the Midwest Political Science Association’s annual conferences, chaired a roundtable discussion of Lani Guinier’s and Gerald Torres’ The Miner’s Canary at the American Political Science Association conference, and is the author of Modernization and Modernity: Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith and Political Development.