Justin Dyer

Dyer writes and teaches in the fields of American political thought, jurisprudence, and constitutionalism, with an emphasis on the philosophical tradition of natural law. He is the author or editor of eight books and numerous articles, essays, and book reviews. His most recent book, with Kody Cooper, is The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding (Cambridge University Press, 2022). His previous books include C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He also is coeditor of the constitutional law casebook American Constitutional Law. He was previously a professor of political science at the University of Missouri, where he served as the founding director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. After attending the University of Oklahoma, he completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in government at The University of Texas at Austin.