Bruce P. Frohnen

Associate Professor of Law

Office: Tilton Hall #189
Tel: 419-772-1950
Fax: 419-772-3514
Email: b-frohnen@onu.edu

Biography:

Professor Bruce Frohnen joined the College of Law in 2008 as visiting associate professor of law and was named associate professor of law in 2010. Prior to joining the faculty, he served as a Visiting Scholar with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a Legislative Aide to United States Senator Spencer Abraham, and a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc. His co-edited volume American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia was the subject of a front page article in the New York Times. His two most recent volumes, The American Nation: Primary Sources and Rethinking Rights (edited with Kenneth Grasso) were named Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. His articles have appeared in journals including the George Washington Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. His research interests focus on the nature, development, and prospects for constitutionalism and human rights given changing views regarding the nature of human community and the person. He holds a JD from the Emory University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.

Publications:

Articles

Law, Lawyers and the Question of Citizenship, 6 J. CATH. SOC. THOUGHT 417 (With Kevin P. Lee)

Whom do you Trust? Lying, Truth Telling, and Question of Enforcement, 27 QLR 425 (2009) (with Brian D. Eck)

The Practical Soul of Business Ethics: The Corporate Manager's Dilemma and the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church,1 U. SEATTLE L. REV. 139 (2005) (with Leo L. Clarke and Edward C. Lyons).

The One and the Many: Individual Rights, Corporate Rights and the Diversity of Groups,107 W.V. L. REV. 789 (2005).

Individual and Group, Natural and Acquired Rights: On the Need for Unclear Distinctions, 3 AVE MARIA L. REV. 171(2005).

Law's Culture: Conservatism and the American Constitutional Order, 27 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 459 (2004).

Multicultural Rights? Natural Law and the Reconciliation of Universal Norms with Particular Cultures, 52 CATH. U.L. REV. 39 (2002).

Diversity in Western Constitutionalism: Chartered Rights, Federated Structures, and Natural Law Reasoning in Burke's Theory of Empire, 29 MCGEORGE L. REV. 27 (1997) (with Charles J. Reid, Jr.).

The Bases of Professional Responsibility: Pluralism, Community and the Legal Profession in Early America, 63 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 931 (1995).

Tocqueville's Law: Integrative Jurisprudence in the American Context,39 AM. J. JURIS. 241 (1994).

Book Chapters (Selected)

"Burke and the Conundrum of University Human Rights."An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke. Ed. Ian Crowe. University of Missouri Press, 2005.

"The Problem of Lincoln's Political Religion." Lincoln's American Dream: Clashing Perspectives. Ed. Kenneth L. Deutsch and Joseph R. Fornieri. Brassey's, 2005.

"Revolutions, Not Made, But Prevented: 1688, 1775 and the Triumph of the Whig Party." Vital Remnants: America's Founding and the WEstern Tradition. Ed. Gary L. Gregg II. ISI Books, 1999.

"Sandel's Liberal Politics." Debating Democracy's Discontent: Essays on AMerican Politics, Law, and Public Philosophy. Ed. Anita L. Allen and Milton C. Regan, Jr. Oxford University Press 1998.

"Commitment and Obligation." Community and Tradition. Ed. George W. Carey and Bruce Frohnen. Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

"Burke, Character and the Constitution of Empire." The Enduring Edmund Burke. ISI Books, 1997.

Books

The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism. University Press of Kansas, 1996.

Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville. University Press of Kansas, 1993.

Edited Volumes (Selected)

Editor, The America Nation: Primary Sources, Liberty Fund, forthcoming. (Sequel to The American Republic: Primary Sources, with introductory material and documents relating to constitutional history during the era from the Civil War to World War II.)

 

Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Prespectives, University of Missouri Press 2008 (with Kenneth L. Grasso)

Defending the Republic: Essays in Honor of George Wescott Carey, ISI Books, forthcoming (with Kenneth L. Grasso).

American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, ISI Books, 2006 (with Jeffrey O. Nelson and Jeremy Beer).

The American Republic: Primary Sources, Libery Fund, 2002.

The Anti-Federalists: Selected Writings and Speeches, Regnery Gateway, 2000.

Community and Tradition: Conservatism Perspectives on the American Experience, Rowman & Littlefield, 1998 (with George W. Carey).

Education:

• J.D., Emory University School of Law
• PhD, Government, Cornell University
• M.A., University of California
• B.A., California State University

Bar Admissions:

• Georgia

Teaching Interests:

• Constitutional Law
• Human Rights

Course Materials:

• Constitutional Origins Seminar
• Comparative Constitutional Law

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