Department of Political Science University of Missouri-Columbia College of Arts and Science

Justin Dyer

Justin DyerOffice: 204 Professional Bldg.
Phone: 573-882-3777
Email: DyerJB@missouri.edu
Web: web.missouri.edu/~dyerjb

Justin Dyer (assistant professor) joined the department in 2009. He holds Ph.D. (2009) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. His subfield is American politics with a research concentration in public law.

Research Statement
I conduct research primarily in the areas of American constitutional development and theory, public law, and political philosophy. Currently, I am completing a book manuscript on the influence of natural law theory on the antislavery constitutional tradition in nineteenth-century America.

Courses Taught

Introduction to American Government
The Constitution and Civil Rights
The Constitution and Civil Liberties
Public Law
Judicial Behavior

Recent Representative Publications

Dyer, Justin Buckley. Forthcoming. “Public Reason and the Moderate Antislavery Constitutional Tradition.” In Paul DeHart and Carson L. Holloway, eds. Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith: Reason, Revelation and the Civic Order.

Dyer, Justin Buckley. Forthcoming. “Slavery and Magna Carta in American Constitutional Development.” PS: Political Science and Politics.

Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2009. “After the Revolution: Somerset and the Antislavery Tradition in Anglo-American Constitutional Development.” Journal of Politics 71(4): 1422-1434.

Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2009. “Lincolnian Natural Right, Dred Scott, and the Jurisprudence of John McLean.” Polity 41(1): 63-85.