Faculty

Center for the Constitution

 

 

James W. Ceaser

 

James W. Ceaser, Ph.D., is Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Dr. Ceaser received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Harvard University and has taught at the University of Virginia since 1975. Dr. Ceaser has also been a Visiting Professor at Claremont McKenna College, Harvard University, Laval University, Marquette University, and The George Marshall Center in Germany. 

 

 

 

Henry L. Chambers, Jr.

Henry L. Chambers, Jr., J.D. has been Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law since 2004. He has published articles and essays on issues as varied as constitutional law, voting rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, criminal law, and evidence. He also lectures on constitutional law principles in the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program, a civic education program for teachers. He received both his law and undergraduate degrees from the University of Virginia.

 

 

William Connelly

Bill Connelly is the John K. Boardman Politics Professor at the Williams School Of Commerce, Economics, and Politics at Washington And Lee University. He also was a 2007 recipient of an Outstanding Faculty Member award by given by the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia.

 

 

 

 

Timothy Heaphy

Timothy Heaphy is the United States Attorney from the Western District of Virginia. He teaches regularly in the Center's programs for law enforcement officials.

 

 

 

 

Eugene Hickok

Eugene Hickok taught political science and law at Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law for many years before entering public service. An award-winning teacher, he has published numerous books and articles on topics related to the Constitution, the presidency, congress and the courts. His commentary has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Education Week. He served as Pennsylvania's Secretary of Education under Governor Tom Ridge and the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush. His most recent publications are Why States? The Challenge of Federalism and Schoolhouse of Cards.

 

 

A.E. Dick Howard

A. E. Dick Howard is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Richmond.  A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, he was a law clerk to Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black of the Supreme Court of the United States.  His books include The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and Constitutionalism in America, Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia (which won a Phi Baeta Kappa prize), and Democracy's Dawn.  He was the chief architect of Virginia's present Constitution and directed the successful referendum campaign for its ratification.  Professor Howard has compared notes with constitution-makers in such places as Brazil, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Albania.  The Union of Czech Lawyers, citing Professor Howard's "promotion of the idea of a civil society in Central Europe," awarded him their Randa Medal -- the first this honor had been conferred upon anyone but a Czech citizen.  Five universities, including Wake Forest University and the College of William and Mary, have conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.  In 1994, Washingtonian magazine named him as "one of he most respected educators in the nation."

 

Ralph Ketcham

Ralph Ketcham is a Professor of History (emeritus) at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the author of the authoritative  biography of James Madison.  Dr. Ketcham's other publications include The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2004), Framed for Posterity:  The Enduring Philosophy of the Constitution (1993), Individualism in Public Life:  A Modern Dilemma (1987), and Presidents Above Party:  The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 (1984).

 

 

 

Benjamin A. Kleinerman

Benjamin A. Kleinerman, Ph.D., received his BA in Political Science from Kenyon College and his PhD in Political Science from Michigan State University. A former Visiting Scholar in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University, Dr. Kleinerman has also taught at Oberlin College and the Virginia Military Institute. He has written articles appearing in Perspectives on Politics and American Political Science Review and he recently published The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril or Executive Power, a book addressing the role of discretionary executive power.

 

 

 

Timothy Longo

Timothy Longo is the Chief of Police for the City of Charlottesville, Virginia.  He is a graduate of Towson University in Baltimore where he served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice. Chief Longo is a graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law, and holds a Juris Doctorate from that institution. He is a member of the Maryland Bar.  Chief Longo lectures across America in the field of Ethics, Professional Standards and Internal Affairs.

 

 

 

David Marion

David E. Marion, Ph.D., is the Elliott Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at Hampden-Sydney College, where he specializes in Constitutional Law, American Public Administration, Public Policy, Jurisprudence, American National Government, and Constitutional and Historical Dimensions of Public Service in Americ.  Dr. Marion is also the Director for the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest.  Dr. Marion served as a scholar during the 2010 NEH Summer Workshop on "James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship" at the Center for the Constitution.  Dr. Marion received his Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University. 

 

 

Michael Meyerson

Michael Meyerson is a Professor of Law and Piper & Marbury Faculty Fellow at the University of Baltimore School of Law, specializing in constitutional law and American legal history.

Meyerson received his B.A. from Hampshire College in 1976 and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1979.  He is the author of two books, Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote The Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World (Basic Books 2008) and Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on Our Chaotic Constitution (W.W.Norton 2002). He is also co-author, with Dan Brenner and Monroe Price, of a treatise on cable television law, Cable Television and Other Nonbroadcast Media (Thomson West 1990 plus annual updates).
 
Meyerson has also written many scholarly law review articles and book chapters, including "The Irrational Supreme Court," in the Nebraska Law Review, "Virtual Constitutions: The Creation of Rules for Governing Private Networks," in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and "The Pre-history of the Prior Restraint Doctrine:  Rediscovering the Link between the First Amendment and the Separation of Powers," in the Indiana Law Review.

 

John J. Patrick

John J. Patrick is a retired Professor of Education in the School of Education at Indiana University. He was also Director of the Social Studies Development Center and Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education at Indiana University. Professor Patrick is the author or co-author of many publications on civic education, history education, and political ideas. Among his recent publications are The Oxford Guide to the U.S. Government (Oxford, 2001) and The Supreme Court of the United States: A Student Companion (Oxford, 2001).

 

 

 

Lynn Uzzell

Dr. Lynn Uzzell received her Ph.D. in politics at the University of Dallas and bachelors degree at Black Hills State University. She has taught extensively about the Constitution and is an expert on the Constitutional Convention. Dr. Uzzell was a post-doctoral fellow in the Constitutionalism and Democracy Program at the University of Virginia and is serving as Veritas Fund Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the John Marshall Center for the Study of Statesmanship in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond.

 

 

 

Peter Wallenstein

Peter Wallenstein, Ph.D., is a professor of history at Virginia Tech, where he has received numerous awards for his teaching and his research.  Dr. Wallenstein previously taught in New York, Canada, Korea, and Japan.
 
Dr. Wallenstein has also published nine books, mostly on the history of the South, from Civil War to civil rights, including Cradle of America:  Four Centuries of Virginia History.

 

 

 

Byron Warnken

Byron L. Warnken is a graduate of McDonogh School (1964), Johns Hopkins University (1968), and the University of Baltimore School of Law (1977). Prior to becoming a law professor, he served in the United States Army, clerked for the Honorable Basil A. Thomas on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, and was an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service.

As an academic, Professor Warnken has been a member of UofB's full-time law faculty for 32 years and currently teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Criminal Procedure I & II, and Judicial Process. He is (1) Director of the Judicial Internship Program, having placed 3,000 law students with judges; (2) Director of Region 3 of the National Moot Court Competition (16 law schools in a four-state region); and (3) Director of the Judicial EXPLOR Program, which, for 15 years, has guaranteed every first-year UofB law student experience with a federal or state trial or appellate judge. Professor Warnken serves as faculty adviser to the Moot Court Board. In 2008, UofB renamed its Annual Consolidated Moot Court Competition, which Professor Warnken established in 1991, as the "Byron L. Warnken Moot Court Competition."