Geoffrey R. Stone

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Geoffrey R. Stone is an American law professor. He is currenlty the Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of 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, Mr. Stone served as a law clerk to Judge J. Skelly Wright 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.

Stone’s most recent book, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (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 is currently chief editor of a fifteen-volume series, Inalienable Rights, which will be published by the Oxford University Press between 2006 and 2010. He is working on two new books, Sexing the Constitution and War and Liberty.

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