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
Hadley P. Arkes
- 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
John M. Finnis
- Biolchini Family Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
- Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus, University of Oxford
Mary Ann Glendon
- Learned Hand Professor of Law Emerita, Harvard University
Leon R. Kass
- 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
Harvey C. Mansfield
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Research Professor of Government, Harvard University
- Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Paul R. McHugh
- University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry
- Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Johns Hopkins University
Gilbert C. Meilaender
- Senior Research Professor, Valparaiso University
David Novak
- J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor Emeritus of Religion, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, and Fellow of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
- 2005-06 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Daniel N. Robinson ~ d. 2018
- Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, Adjunct Fellow, Linacre College, University of Oxford
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
James Q. Wilson ~ d. 2012
- 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
Vince Bagnulo
- Adjunct Lecturer, Texas State University
Stephen H. Balch
- Founding President, National Association of Scholars
- Director (Retired), The Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Texas Tech University
- Chairman of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions
Antón Barba-Kay
- 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
J. Jackson Barlow
- Charles A. Dana Professor of Politics, Juniata College
- 2007-08 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow
Mark W. Bauerlein
- Professor Emeritus of English, Emory University
- 2010-11 James Madison Program Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow
Roberta L. Bayer
- Associate Professor of Government, Patrick Henry College
- 2018-19 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow
Randy Beck
- Justice Thomas O. Marshall Chair of Constitutional Law, University of Georgia School of Law
- 2016-17 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow
Francis J. Beckwith
- 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
Sean Beienburg *15
- Assistant Professor, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University
Herman J. Belz '59
- Professor Emeritus of History, University of Maryland
- 2001-02 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Philip Bess
- Professor of Architecture, The University of Notre Dame
- 2013-14 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life
Andrew Scott Bibby
- 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
Brian D.N. Bird
- Assistant Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
- 2019-2020 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mark Blitz
- Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
Jacob R. Boros
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Benedictine College
- 2021-22 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Joseph M. Boyle, Jr. ~ d. 2016
- Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
- 2010-11 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life
Gerard V. Bradley
- 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
Kathleen A. Brady
- 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
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman
- Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University
- 2006-07 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Steele Brand
- Professor of History, Cairn University
- 2022-23 Garwood Visiting Fellow
Megan C. Brand *22
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, University of Pennsylvania
Michael D. Breidenbach
- Associate Professor 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
Shilo Brooks
- Assistant Director, James Madison Program
- Lecturer in Politics, Princeton University
- 2019-20 Visiting Fellow
Jessica H. Brown *19
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
Stanley C. Brubaker
- Professor of Political Science, Colgate University
- 2006-07 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Joseph Brutto
- Assistant Professor and Chairman, Department of Political Science, Christendom College
- 2015-16 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
Maria Bueno
- Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Austral University, Argentina
- 2015-16 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Dominic Burbidge
- Founding Director, Canterbury Institute
- Research Coordinator, Programme for the Foundations of Law, Oxford University
- 2014-15 James Madison Program Postdoctoral Research Associate
Timothy Burns
- Professor of Political Science, Baylor University
- 2022-23 John and Daria Barry Visiting Fellow
Andrew E. Busch
- Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College
- 2009-10 James Madison Program Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow