Geoffrey R. Stone

Geoffrey R. Stone is Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was dean from 1987 to 1994 and provost of the University from 1994 to 2002. Educated at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S.) and the University of Chicago (J.D.), he is widely recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment. He represented Fred Korematsu in an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in the Guantánamo Bay case. His past works include ETERNALLY VIGILANT: Free Speech in the Modern Era, THE BILL OF RIGHTS IN THE MODERN STATE (with Richard Epstein and Cass Sunstein), CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (with Cass Sunstein), and THE FIRST AMENDMENT (with Cass Sunstein), and PERILOUS TIMES: Free Speech in Wartime From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism. Mr. Stone is currently chief editor of a fifteen-volume series, INALIENABLE RIGHTS, which will be published between 2006 and 2010, and he is working on a new book, SEX AND THE CONSTITUTION.

PERILOUS TIMES: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (W. W. Norton & Co., 2004)

SEX AND THE CONSTITUTION: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century (W.W. Norton & Co., 2017)

WAR AND LIBERTY: An American Dilemma: 1790 to the Present (W.W. Norton & Co., 2007)