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. 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 & Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion and Philosophy, 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
Paul D. Moreno
- William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitution and History; Dean of Social Sciences, Hillsdale College
- 2005-06 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Sarah A. Morgan Smith
- Historical Consultant and Researcher
- 2016-17 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
Jeffry H. Morrison
- Professor of American Studies, Christopher Newport University
- 2003-04 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Melissa Moschella
- Associate Professor of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
- Visiting Scholar, B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, The Heritage Foundation
- McDonald Distinguished Fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University School of Law
- 2012-13 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
Mark L. Movsesian
- Frederick A. Whitney Professor of Contract Law, Co-Director of the Center for Law and Religion, St. John’s University
- Spring 2018 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
John D. Mueller
- Lehrman Institute Fellow in Economics, Ethics and Public Policy Center
- 2001-02 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Vincent Phillip Munoz
- Tocqueville Associate Professor of Religion & Public Life, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
- 2008-09 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life
Robert F. Nagel
- Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law, University of Colorado School of Law
- Fall 2016 James Madison Program Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow
Jasmina Nedevska
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
- 2020-2021 James Madison Program Postdoctoral Research Associate
Michael J. New
- Assistant Professor of Social Research, The Busch School of Business, The Catholic University of America
Dwight Newman
- Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Rights in Constitutional and International Law, University of Saskatchewan
- 2015-16 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Alberto Nones
- Professor of History and Aesthetic of Music, Conservatorio G.Puccini Gallarate
- 2009-10 James Madison Program Olin-Lehrman Postdoctoral Fellow
Jack Wade Nowlin
- Dean, W. Frank Newton Professor of Law, Texas Tech University
- Spring 2009 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Marvin Olasky
- Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
- 2004-05 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Marianna Orlandi
- Director of Academic Programs, The Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture
- 2019-2020 James Madison Program Associate Research Scholar
Cristóbal Orrego
- Associate Professor of Law, Catholic University of Chile
Deborah A. O’Malley
- Associate Director, Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government, University of Notre Dame
- 2017-18 James Madison Program Forbes Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dennis M. Patterson
- Board of Governors Professor of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers University, Camden
- 2002-03 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
James M. Patterson
- Associate Professor and Chair of Politics, Ave Maria University
- Research Fellow, Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy
- President, The Ciceronian Society
- 2014-15 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
Michael Stokes Paulsen
- Distinguished University Chair and Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law
- Spring 2018 Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics and Visiting Fellow
Alan Cecil Petigny ~ d. 2013
- Associate Professor of History, University of Florida
- 2010-11 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Danilo Petranovich
- Director, Abigail Adams Institute, Harvard University
Daniel Philpott
- Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Anne R. Pierce
- Author and Commentator - American Politics and Society
Nathan Pinkoski
- Research Fellow and Director of Academic Programs, Zephyr Institute
- 2017-18 James Madison Program Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate
Allen Porter '10
Andrew R. Porwancher
- Wick Cary Professor of Classics & Letters, University of Oklahoma
- Spring 2018 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Fellow
Saikrishna B. Prakash
- James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law; Albert Clark Tate Jr. Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
- Fall 2008 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow
Dermot A. Quinn
- Professor of History & Director of Graduate Studies, Seton Hall University
- 2008-09 James Madison Program Garwood Visiting Research Scholar
Donatella P. Rinaldi
- Research Assistant in Translational Psychiatry, Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit, Nottinghamshire NHS Trust, Nottingham University Hospital
- 2011-12 James Madison Program Postdoctoral Research Associate