Stephen Joseph Macedo

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values. Political theorist and award-winning teacher whose scholarly interests lie in contemporary political theory, law, including constitutional law and legal theory, and also ethics and public policy. He is the author of many articles and two books in democratic theory-Liberal Virtues (1990) and Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (2000)-and principal coauthor of the American Political Science Association study Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation (2004). He has edited or coedited 14 volumes in political and legal theory including five in the Nomos series, the yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. He served as vice president of the American Political Science Association, 2002-2003, and chaired several association committees since then. At Princeton, he was the founding director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs, chaired the Princeton Project on Universal Jurisdiction and, for eight years, was the director of the University Center for Human Values.