Stone, Geoffrey R(ichard) 1946-

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Stone, Geoffrey R(ichard) 1946-

PERSONAL: Born November 20, 1946. Education: University of Pennsylvania, B.S., 1968; University of Chicago, J.D., 1971.

ADDRESSES: Office—University of Chicago, 1111 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637-5418. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Admitted to the Bar of New York State, 1972. U.S. Court of Appeals, Washington, DC circuit, law clerk to Hon. J. S. Kelly Wright, 1971-72; U.S. Supreme Court, law clerk to Hon. William J. Brennan, Jr., 1972-73; University of Chicago, IL, assistant professor, 1973-77, associate professor, 1977-79, professor, 1979-84, Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law, 1984-, dean of law school, 1987-93, provost, 1994-2002; Supreme Court Review, coeditor (with Dennis J. Hutchinson and David A. Strauss), 1991-.

Member of advisory and directorial boards of organizations, including Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty, 1976-93; American Civil Liberties Union, Illinois Division, 1978-84; American Law Institute; Public Service Challenge, 1989; National Association for Public Interest Law, 1989-93; Legal Aid Society, 1989-93; Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation, 1989-93; Illinois Supreme Court Special Commission on the Administration of Justice, 1992-93; National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 1992-96; Institute for Institutional and Legislative Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 1992-94; First Oak Brook Bankshares and Oak Brook Bank 1992-; National Opinion Research Center, 1994-2001; National Academy of Sciences Commission on Protecting Children from Pornography on the Internet, 2000-02; American Bar Association, 2000-; University of Chicago Program on Human Rights, 2001-; American Law Institute, 2002-; and Mac-Arthur Justice Center, 2003-. Chicago Council of Lawyers, member of board of governors, 1975-77; Commission on Law and Social Action, American Jewish Congress member of steering committee, 1979-97; Argonne National Laboratory, member of board of governors, 1994-2001; American Civil Liberties Union, member of National Advisory Council, 1998-; Chapin Hall Center for Children, member of board of governors), 2001-03.

MEMBER: American Bar Association, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (fellow), Renaissance Society, Chicago Children's Choir (member of board of directors, 2003-).

AWARDS, HONORS: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 2004, for Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism.

WRITINGS:

(With others) Constitutional Law, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1986

(Editor, with Richard A. Epstein and Cass R. Sunstein) The Bill of Rights in the Modern State, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1992

(With others) The First Amendment, Aspen Law and Business (Gaithesburg, MD), 1999

(Editor, with Lee C. Bollinger) Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 2002

Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, W.W. Norton & Co. (New York, NY), 2004

Contributor of articles to professional journals and newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune.

ADAPTATIONS: Constitutional Law was recorded on cassette tape by professor Edward Correia and released by Tiger Publishing Group, Inc. (Green Farms, CT), 1993.

SIDELIGHTS: A Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, Geoffrey R. Stone has written, co-authored, and edited several books and dozens of articles focusing on law and the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights. His books Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era, and Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, have focused minutely on the history of free speech, its varying interpretations, and government infringements on this right during times of war, including the cold war.

The 2002 essay collection Eternally Vigilant opens and closes with dialogues between its editors, Lee Bollinger and Stone, who also provide short introductions to each contributed essay. In Argumentation and Advocacy, reviewer Franklyn Haiman wrote that the essays discussed the First Amendment at a "high level of abstraction but … [were] clearly enough written to be accessible to non-experts."

Stone's 2004 book Perilous Times appeared during a time of public free-speech debate and accuses the government of secrecy. Stone studies six historical cases in which the government in some way limited First Amendment rights and jailed or censured wartime dissenters. Among the issues discussed are the Japanese-American internment during World War II, the McCarthy communist paranoia of the cold war, and the Patriot Act. Nation reviewer Eric Foner, while praising Stone's work, disagreed with the author's decision not to include any incidents of peacetime repression or any discussion of slavery's effect on First Amendment visibility. Foner also noted the relative brevity of Stone's examination of the "war on terrorism." Other reviewers complimented the book's wartime-only focus. Anthony Marro, writing for Columbia Journalism Review, praised the book as "valuable … for journalists" and "compelling and timely."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Argumentation and Advocacy, fall, 2002, Franklyn S. Haiman, review of Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era, p. 141.

Booklist, November 1, 2004, Vernon Ford, review of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, p. 449.

Columbia Journalism Review, March-April, 2002, James Boylan, review of Eternally Vigilant, p. 77; November-December, 2004, Anthony Marro, "Fighting Words: The Silencing Power of War," p. 65.

Constitutional Commentary, spring, 1998, William K. Kelly, review of Constitutional Law.

Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2004, review of Perilous Times, p. 797.

Nation, December 6, 2004, Eric Foner, "Suspension of Disbelief," p. 36.

Nieman Reports, spring, 2005, Maggie Mulvihill, "'Perilous Times' for First Amendment Rights: Editors Must Send the Clear Signal—and Offer the Necessary Support—to Make the Coverage of Government Secrecy a Priority in their Newsrooms," p. 95.

Publishers Weekly, September 13, 2004, review of Perilous Times, p. 70.