Due to the commentary provided during Friday's lecture by Tom West and Philip Hamburger, we anticipate that our event could extend past its original end time of 1:45 p.m. ET.
Inaugurated in the fall of 2024, the True Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of Tad and Jenn True. This annual lecture series was created to foster the production of scholarly manuscripts of great significance by major scholars that relate to the principles and practices of American Constitutionalism.
Jud Campbell is a professor of law and the Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. He previously served as a professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law and has been a visiting professor of law at the Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Chicago Law School. His academic focus is constitutional history and First Amendment law. His publications include articles in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. After completing his J.D. at Stanford Law School, he clerked for Judge Diane S. Sykes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and for Judge José A. Cabranes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then served as the Executive Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and two master’s degrees from the London School of Economics, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.
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Tom West holds the Potter Chair in Politics at Hillsdale College. He received his B.A. from Cornell and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. He is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. West is the author of the 2017 book The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom. His earlier book on the founding is Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America.
