Geoffrey R. Stone
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Geoffrey R. Stone is an American law professor. He is currently the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School
University of Chicago Law School
The University of Chicago Law School was founded in 1902 as the graduate school of law at the University of Chicago and is among the most prestigious and selective law schools in the world. The U.S. News & World Report currently ranks it fifth among U.S...

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Dean of the Chicago Law School

A member of the law faculty since 1973, Mr. Stone served as dean of the Law School (1987-1994) and Provost of the University of Chicago (1994-2002). After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Stone served as a law clerk to Judge J. Skelly Wright
J. Skelly Wright
James Skelly Wright was a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and anti-segregationist. The J...

 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
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Perilous Times

Stone’s most famous book, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (W. W. Norton 2004) received the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for the Best Book of the Year, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize as the Best Book in History, the American Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award for the Best Book of the Year in Political Science, the Goldsmith Award from the Kennedy School of Harvard University for the Best Book of the Year in Public Affairs, and the Scribes Award for the Best Book of the Year in Law. Stone's two most recent books are "Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark" (Rowman and Littlefield 2007) and "War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (W. W. Norton 2007).

Supreme Court Review

Stone is an Editor of the "Supreme Court Review" and he is co-author of "Constitutional Law," "The First Amendment," "The First Amendment in the Modern State," and "The Bill of Rights in Modern Society." He is currently chief editor of a fifteen-volume series, Inalienable Rights, which will be published by the Oxford University Press between 2006 and 2010. Authors in this series include Richard Posner
Richard Posner
Richard Allen Posner is an American jurist, legal theorist, and economist who is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School...

, Laurence Tribe
Laurence Tribe
Laurence Henry Tribe is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. He also works with the firm Massey & Gail LLP on a variety of matters....

, Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer, jurist, and political commentator. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School where in 1967, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor of law in its history...

, Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum , is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics....

, Mark Tushnet
Mark Tushnet
Mark Victor Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A prominent scholar of constitutional law and legal history, he is the author of many books and articles.-Career:...

, Jack Rakove, Larry Lessig, and Kathleen Sullivan
Kathleen Sullivan
Kathleen Marie Sullivan is a professor at the Stanford Law School and name partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a litigation-only law firm with offices in California, New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago, San Francisco, Germany, London, and Tokyo where she chairs their national appellate...

, among others. Stone is currently working on a new book, Sexing the Constitution.

Stone has written about the religion of Supreme Court Judges, notably as to how they relate to judicial decisions about abortion
Abortion
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. He has argued that five sitting Catholic judges effectively prevented the legalization of partial-birth abortion in Gonzales v. Carhart
Gonzales v. Carhart
Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124 , is a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The case reached the high court after U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appealed a ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in favor of...

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Affiliations

Stone is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society, the Board of Advisors of the American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union
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, and the Chair of the Board of the Chicago Children's Choir. He was served as a Vice President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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 and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools
Association of American Law Schools
The Association of American Law Schools is a non-profit organization of 170 law schools in the United States. Another 25 schools are "non-member fee paid" schools, which are not members but choose to pay AALS dues. Its purpose is to improve the legal profession through the improvement of legal...

s. He is a frequent author of op-eds in such journals as the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
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, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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, and he writes regularly for huffingtonpost.com.

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