James R. Stoner, Jr., born on January 4, 1955, in Washington D.C. is the Chair of the Department of Political Science and a professor of political science at Louisiana State University. Stoner specializes in political theory, English common law, and American constitutionalism.
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Professor Stoner graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. from Middlebury College in 1977, where he was a student of Murray Dry and Paul Nelson. He obtained both his M.A. (1980) and Ph.D. (1987) from Harvard University, studying under professor Harvey Mansfield. Before arriving at LSU in 1988, Professor Stoner was an Instructor in Politics and Public Policy at Goucher College. He was a member of the National Council on Humanities until 2006, having been appointed to that post by George W. Bush in 2002. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute.
Professor Stoner was the chair of the drafting committee of the Princeton Principles, a policy paper released July 13, 2006 on the importance of Marriage and the Public Good. [1] Additionally, Professor Stoner has authored two books: Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 1992) and Common Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 2003). He has co-edited two books, Rethinking Business Management: Examining the Foundations of Business Education (Witherspoon, 2007) and The Social Costs of Pornography: A Collection of Papers (Witherspoon, 2008), both of which are collections of papers presented at conferences at Princeton University.
He has lectured, debated, or presented papers at a wide array of universities, including Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Virginia, Georgetown University, the United States Air Force Academy, Michigan State University, Boston College, Middlebury College, Bowdoin College, University of Richmond, Baylor University, Tulane University, Saginaw Valley State University, Salve Regina University, Loyola College of Maryland, Oglethorpe University, University of Alaska-Anchorage, Ave Maria University, St. Vincent College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Berry College, and the Catholic University of America, as well as at the law schools of Villanova University, University of Minnesota, Hamline University, University of St. Thomas, and University of Florida. Recently, Professor Stoner served as acting Dean of the LSU Honors College for the Fall 2010 semester.
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