JAMES PIERESON
Written after the Stanford law student protest of a Federal Court of Appeals judge (Stuart Kyle Duncan) who was invited to speak at the university.
James Piereson received a B.A. in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1973 in political science, both from Michigan State University. He taught political theory and U.S. government courses at Iowa State University in 1974, at Indiana University in 1975, and at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1982. He is a Senior Fellow and serves as Chairman of the Center for the American University at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and an advisory board member of the affiliated Adam Smith Society. He also serves as Chairman of the selection committee for the VERITAS Fund for Higher Education, giving grants to selected programs at US colleges and universities. Additionally, he is chairman of the selection committee for the Hayek Book Prize awarded by the Manhattan Institute each year.
