Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone joined the faculty in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He later served as Dean of the Law School (1987-1994) and Provost of the University of Chicago (1994-2002).
Stone is the author of many books on constitutional law, including Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century (2017); Speaking Out: Reflections of Law, Liberty and Justice (2010 & 2016); Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007), War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007), Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime (2004), and Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era(Chicago 2002). He is also an editor of two leading casebooks, Constitutional Law (7th ed. 2013) and The First Amendment (5th ed. 2016). Stone is an editor of The Supreme Court Reviewand chief editor of a twenty-volume series, Inalienable Rights, which is being published by the Oxford University Press.
Stone was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, which evaluated the government’s foreign intelligence surveillance programs in the wake of Edward Snowden’s leaks. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the America Law Institute, the National Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Council for Democracy and Technology. He has served as Chair of the Board of the American Constitution Society and Chair of the Board of the Chicago Children’s Choir.
Stone has also written amicus briefs for constitutional scholars in a number of Supreme Court cases, including Obergefell v. Hodges, Whole Woman’s Heath v. Hellerstadt, Lawrence v. Texas, United States v. Windsor, United States v. Stevens, and Rasul v. Bush. He was also one of the lawyers who represented President Bill Clinton in the Supreme Court in Clinton v. Jones.
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Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion
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Affirmative Action Overturned: The Implications of SFFA v Harvard
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The Writ-of-Erasure Fallacy and the Texas Heartbeat Act
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Does the First Amendment Protect Hate Speech on Campus and Online?
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Panel I: The Political Process and the First Amendment [Archive Collection]
1986 National Student Symposium
On March 7-8, 1986, The Federalist Society hosted its annual National Student Symposium at Stanford...
Panel I: The Political Process and the First Amendment [Archive Collection]
1986 National Student Symposium
On March 7-8, 1986, The Federalist Society hosted its annual National Student Symposium at Stanford...
Panel III: Precedent, The Amendment Process, and Evolution in Constitutional Doctrine [Archive Collection]
First Annual National Lawyers Convention
On January 30-31, 1987, the Federalist Society hosted its annual National Lawyers Convention at the...
Panel III: Precedent, The Amendment Process, and Evolution in Constitutional Doctrine [Archive Collection]
First Annual National Lawyers Convention
On January 30-31, 1987, the Federalist Society hosted its annual National Lawyers Convention at the...
Panel I: The Classical Theory of Law [Archive Collection]
1987 National Student Symposium
On April 3, 1987, the University of Chicago chapter hosted the Sixth Annual National Student...