Faculty Directory

Professor Will Harris of the University of Pennsylvania is the founding director of the Center for the Constitution and serves as our Principal Scholar. He has devoted his career to studying the Constitution and its underlying principles. More recently, his work in education for democratic citizenship has extended to Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Professor Harris directs the Center’s curriculum and conducts most of the presentations and discussions in the Weekend Seminars. Under his guidance, you will explore the founding theories, conceptual innovations, and intellectual framework of American constitutionalism.

Bill Connelly is the John K. Boardman Politics Professor at the Williams School Of Commerce, Economics, and Politics at Washington And Lee University. He also was a 2007 recipient of an Outstanding Faculty Member award by given by the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia.

Ralph Ketcham is a Professor of History (emeritus) at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the author of the authoritative  biography of James Madison.  Dr. Ketcham's other publications include The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2004), Framed for Posterity:  The Enduring Philosophy of the Constitution (1993), Individualism in Public Life:  A Modern Dilemma (1987), and Presidents Above Party:  The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 (1984).

Timothy Longo is the Chief of Police for the City of Charlottesville, Virginia.  He is a graduate of Towson University in Baltimore where he served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice. Chief Longo is a graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law, and holds a Juris Doctorate from that institution. He is a member of the Maryland Bar.  Chief Longo lectures across America in the field of Ethics, Professional Standards and Internal Affairs.

James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and was called by his contemporaries the "Father of the Constitution" and "Architect of the Bill of Rights." His writings are used extensively in all programs at the Center for the Constitution.

Michael Meyerson is a Professor of Law and Piper & Marbury Faculty Fellow at the University of Baltimore School of Law, specializing in constitutional law and American legal history.
 
Meyerson received his B.A. from Hampshire College in 1976 and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1979.  He is the author of two books, Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote The Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World (Basic Books 2008) and Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on Our Chaotic Constitution (W.W.Norton 2002). He is also co-author, with Dan Brenner and Monroe Price, of a treatise on cable television law, Cable Television and Other Nonbroadcast Media (Thomson West 1990 plus annual updates).

Meyerson has also written many scholarly law review articles and book chapters, including "The Irrational Supreme Court," in the Nebraska Law Review, "Virtual Constitutions: The Creation of Rules for Governing Private Networks," in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and "The Pre-history of the Prior Restraint Doctrine:  Rediscovering the Link between the First Amendment and the Separation of Powers," in the Indiana Law Review.

John J. Patrick is a retired Professor of Education in the School of Education at Indiana University. He was also Director of the Social Studies Development Center and Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education at Indiana University. Professor Patrick is the author or co-author of many publications on civic education, history education, and political ideas. Among his recent publications are The Oxford Guide to the U.S. Government (Oxford, 2001) and The Supreme Court of the United States: A Student Companion (Oxford, 2001).

Byron L. Warnken is a graduate of McDonogh School (1964), Johns Hopkins University (1968), and the University of Baltimore School of Law (1977). Prior to becoming a law professor, he served in the United States Army, clerked for the Honorable Basil A. Thomas on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, and was an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service.



As an academic, Professor Warnken has been a member of UofB's full-time law faculty for 32 years and currently teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Criminal Procedure I & II, and Judicial Process. He is (1) Director of the Judicial Internship Program, having placed 3,000 law students with judges; (2) Director of Region 3 of the National Moot Court Competition (16 law schools in a four-state region); and (3) Director of the Judicial EXPLOR Program, which, for 15 years, has guaranteed every first-year UofB law student experience with a federal or state trial or appellate judge. Professor Warnken serves as faculty adviser to the Moot Court Board. In 2008, UofB renamed its Annual Consolidated Moot Court Competition, which Professor Warnken established in 1991, as the "Byron L. Warnken Moot Court Competition."