PUBLIC DISCOURSE: James R. Stoner

James R. Stoner, Jr. is Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University, where he has taught since 1988 and now chairs the department. He is the author of Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 2003) and Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 1992), as well as a number of articles and essays. Designated editor of a new journal, American Political Thought, scheduled to launch in 2010, he continues work on a project tentatively titled “Resisting Judicial Supremacy,” with Richard Morgan of Bowdoin College, and on a study of the political and constitutional thought of St. Thomas More. In 2002-03 he was a visiting fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, and he served by presidential appointment from 2002 to 2006 on the National Council on the Humanities. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987.

Publications:
Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 2003)
Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 1992)