Recent Miller Lecturers
Keith Whittington
"Repugnant Acts? Judicial Review and the Laws of Congress"Monday, October 4, 2010
Keith E. Whittington is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at
Princeton University and currently director of graduate studies in the
Department of Politics. He is the author of Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning, and Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review, and Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History (which
won the C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book in law and courts and
the J. David Greenstone Award for best book in politics and history). He
is also the editor (with Neal Devins) of Congress and the Constitution and the editor (with R. Daniel Kelemen and Gregory A Caldeira) of The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics.
He has published on American constitutional theory and development,
federalism, judicial politics, and the presidency. He is currently
working on political history of the judicial review of federal statutes
and a volume of cases and materials on American constitutionalism.Douglas Laycock
"The Religious Exemptions Debate"Monday, October 19, 2009
Douglas Laycock is the Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He is also the Alice McKean Young Regents Chair in Law Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served for twenty-five years. He has published many articles on religious liberty and other issues of constitutional law, and is the co-editor of Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty (2008). He has been actively involved in religious liberty issues in the courts and legislatures and has argued several major cases before the Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and of the University of Chicago Law School, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Council of the American Law Institute.Matthew Wilson
"Blessed Are the Poor? American Christianityand Attitudes Toward the Welfare State"
Monday, October 13, 2008
J. Matthew Wilson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. His works include "Political Sophistication and Attributions of Blame in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina" (Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2008); "Cognitive Heterogeneity and Economic Voting: A Comparative Analysis of Four Democratic Electorates" (American Journal of Political Science, 2006); "A New Right?: Moral Issues and Partisan Change in Canada (Social Science Quarterly, 2005); and "Follow the Leader?: Presidential Approval, Presidential Support, and Representatives' Electoral Fortunes" (The Journal of Politics, 2003). He has taught on a range of areas, including public opinion, elections, religion and politics, and political psychology. Gary Jacobsohn
"The Disharmonic Constitution"Monday, November 5, 2007
Gary Jacobsohn is the Patterson-Banister Professor of Government and the H. Malcolm MacDonald Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Law at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications are The Wheel of Law: India's Secularism in Comparative Constitutional Context (Princeton University Press, 2003); Apple of Gold: Constitutionalism in Israel and the United States (Princeton University Press, 1993); The Supreme Court and the Decline of Constitutional Aspiration (Rowman and Littlefield, 1986); and, Pragmatism, Statesmanship and the Supreme Court (Cornell University Press, 1977). His interests and research include the intersection of constitutional theory and comparative constitutionalism.Michael Hayes
"Isolationism, Internationalism, and the Rule ofLaw: The Foreign Policy Vision of Senator Robert Taft"
Monday, October 9, 2006
Michael Hayes is a Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. His works include Incrementalism and Public Policy (Longman, 1992) as well as a variety of articles and book chapters in the Journal of Politics and Polity. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and he has received the E.E. Schattschneider Award from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in American politics. He has also received the Jack Walker Award from the APSA's section on Political Organizations and Parties for the contribution of his article on the study of interest groups in the Journal of Politics. He teaches on a range of topics, including American politics, Congress, public policy, interest group theory, incrementalism and policy making, and the effects of public opinion on the legislative process.
Michael Zuckert
"The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men, or
How the Supreme Court Got such Big Britches"
Fall 2005
Michael P. Zuckert is the Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His works include Natural Rights and the New Republicanism (Princeton 1994); The Natural Rights Republic (Notre Dame 1996); and Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy (Kansas 2002). He has written on a range of topics, including George Orwell, Plato's Apology, and Shakespeare, contemporary liberal theory, and Leo Strauss. He co-authored and co-produced the public radio series Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson: A Nine Part Drama for the Radio and was senior scholar for Liberty, a six hour public television series on the American Revolution.John Yoo
"Fighting the New Terrorism"Fall 2004
John Yoo is a Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He has received research fellowships from the University of California, Berkeley, the Olin Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has also received the Paul M. Bator Award for excellence in legal scholarship and teaching from the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. He has clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court, and he served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 1996. He has also served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. James R. Stoner
"Natural Law, the Right to Resist and the Constitution"Fall 2003
James R. Stoner is Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University. His publications include "The New Constitutionalism of Publius" (History of American Political Thought, 2003); Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (University Press of Kansas, 2003); "The Electoral College and Democracy" (Securing Democracy: Why We Have an Electoral College, 2001); and, Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism (University Press of Kansas, 1992). He was the Visiting Fellow from 2002 to 2003 at Princeton University. He also received the Summer Research Fellowship from The Earhart Foundation both in 2000 and 2002. He teaches in and researches a variety of topics, including political theory, English common law, and American Constitutionalism. 