
The James Madison Society is an international community of scholars whose research contributes significantly to civic education in institutions of higher learning. Members of the Society share the belief of James Madison that only a well-instructed people can be permanently free. They also share a commitment to instill within rising generations an appreciation of the common good and the moral foundations of democratic governance. The Society provides a forum through which scholars who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in constitutional law, political thought, and related fields can engage in intensive discussions about their research and teaching.
Board of Consulting Scholars
- Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, Amherst College
- Director, James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding
- 2002-03 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Biolchini Family Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
- Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus, University of Oxford
- Learned Hand Professor of Law Emerita, Harvard University
- Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought and the College, The University of Chicago
- Dean of the Faculty, Shalem College, Jerusalem, Israel
- Madden-Jewett Chair Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, Harvard University
- Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry
- Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Johns Hopkins University
- Senior Research Professor, Valparaiso University
- J. Richard & Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion and Philosophy, University of Toronto
- 2005-06 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, Adjunct Fellow, Linacre College, University of Oxford
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
- Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
- Former President, American Political Science Association
- Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Members of the James Madison Society
- Adjunct Lecturer, Texas State University
- Founding President, National Association of Scholars
- Director (Retired), The Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Texas Tech University
- Robert B. Aird Chair of Humanities, Deep Springs College
- Associate Professor of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
- 2017-18 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Charles A. Dana Professor of Politics, Juniata College
- 2007-08 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow
- Professor Emeritus of English, Emory University
- 2010-11 James Madison Program Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow
- Associate Professor of Government, Patrick Henry College
- 2018-19 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow
- Justice Thomas O. Marshall Chair of Constitutional Law, University of Georgia School of Law
- 2016-17 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow
- Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies, Affiliate Professor of Political Science, and Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy, Baylor University
- 2002-03 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Assistant Professor, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University
- Professor Emeritus of History, University of Maryland
- 2001-02 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Professor of Architecture, The University of Notre Dame
- 2013-14 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life
- Associate Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies, and Assistant Professor of History and Political Science, Utah Valley University
- 2011-12 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Assistant Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
- 2019-2020 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Salvatori Center, Claremont McKenna College
- Instructor, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University
- 2021-22 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
- 2010-11 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life
- Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
- Co-Director of the Natural Law Institute, University of Notre Dame
- Senior Fellow, The Witherspoon Institute
- 2008-09 James Madison Program Visiting Research Scholar
- Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University
- 2011-12 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life
- Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University
- 2006-07 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, University of Pennsylvania
- Associate Professor and Chair of History, Ave Maria University
- Senior Affiliate for Legal Humanities, Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, University of Pennsylvania
- 2013-14 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
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- Assistant Professor of Economics, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
- Professor of Political Science, Colgate University
- 2006-07 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Assistant Professor and Chairman, Department of Political Science, Christendom College
- 2015-16 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Austral University, Argentina
- 2015-16 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
- Founding Director, Canterbury Institute
- Research Coordinator, Programme for the Foundations of Law, Oxford University
- 2014-15 James Madison Program Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College
- 2009-10 James Madison Program Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow