Jim Stoner on The Rights and Wrongs in the Declaration of Independence

Join Benedictine College’s Center for Constitutional Liberty in preparation for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence for a sponsored lecture by Louisiana State University’s James Stoner. The lecture will be at 4 pm on October 30 in McAllister Board Room, Ferrell Academic Center. This lecture is made possible through the support of the Jack Miller Center.

Professor James R. Stoner, Jr. (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1987) has teaching and research interests in political theory, English common law, and American constitutionalism. He is the author of Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 2003) and Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 1992), as well as a number of articles and essays. In 2009 he was named a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey. He is the 2010 recipient of the Honors College Sternberg Professorship at LSU.