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Geoffrey R. Stone
Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. After serving as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States, Mr. Stone joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1973. Mr. Stone has served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School (1987-1994) and Provost of the University of Chicago (1994-2002).
Mr. Stone is the author or co-author of many books on constitutional law, including, among others, Leaks, National Security and Freedom of the Press (forthcoming 2021); Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court (2020); The Free Speech Century (2019); Sex and the Constitution (2017); Top Secret: When Government Keeps Us In the Dark (2007); War and Liberty (2007); and Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime (2004), which won eight national book awards.
Mr. Stone is also the co-editor of one of the nation’s leading constitutional law casebooks, one of the nation’s leading First Amendment casebooks, chief editor of a twenty-five volume series, Inalienable Rights, which is published by the Oxford University Press, and for thirty years he has been an editor of the Supreme Court Review.
Mr. Stone is a former Chair of the Board of the American Constitution Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Law Institute, and the National Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 2013, President Obama appointed Mr. Stone to the five-member NSA Review Group, which produced an influential report following up on the Edward Snowden disclosures, he then served as a Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence, and in 2014 he chaired the faculty committee that drafted The University of Chicago’s Statement on Free Expression, which has since been adopted by more than sixty colleges and universities across the nation.