Bruce P. Frohnen is an Associate Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law

Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law

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. Prior to this he taught at Ave Maria School of Law

Ave Maria School of Law

The Ave Maria School of Law, founded in 1999, is a fully ABA accredited Roman Catholic law school, located in Naples, Florida. In the 2009-2010 academic year, there were over 375 students enrolled from a variety of states, countries, and undergraduate institutions...

 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition he is a Senior Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal

Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal

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He began his legal career as a resident scholar with the Heritage Foundation

Heritage Foundation

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 and as a senior fellow with Liberty Fund. He later spent five years as a legislative aide to former U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham. Before joining the Ave Maria faculty, Professor Frohnen served as a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He previously held teaching positions at The Catholic University of America

The Catholic University of America

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, Emory University

Emory University

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, Oglethorpe University

Oglethorpe University

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, Cornell College

Cornell College

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, and Reed College

Reed College

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He earned a Bachelor of Arts from California State University

California State University

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, a Master of Arts from the University of California at Davis, a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University

Cornell University

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, and a Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law.

He is the author of Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville (University Press of Kansas, 1993) and The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism (University Press of Kansas, 1996). He is editor of The American Republic: Primary Sources (Liberty Fund, 2002), The Anti-Federalists: Selected Writings and Speeches (Regnery, 2000) and, with George W. Carey, Community and Tradition: Conservative Perspectives on the American Experience (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). His articles have appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, National Review, and numerous academic reviews and journals of opinion. Frohnen currently serves as editor of the academic journal The Political Science Reviewer. He serves as co-editor of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, published by ISI Books in 2006.

External links

• Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal http://www.kirkcenter.org/
• Frohnen's bio at the Kirk Center
• Ave Maria School of Law http://avemarialaw.edu/
• Intercollegiate Studies Institute Books http://www.isi.org/
• Center for the American Idea
• The American Republic: Primary Sources, ed. Bruce Frohnen (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002). See original text in The Online Library of Liberty.