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

Justin B. Dyer

Justin DyerOffice: 204 Professional Bldg.
Phone: 573-882-3777
Email: DyerJB@missouri.edu
Web: web.missouri.edu/~dyerjb
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Justin Dyer (Assistant Professor) has been with the department since 2009. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Texas and specializes in American politics.  

Research Statement
Professor Dyer’s research focuses on the intersections of political theory and American constitutional development. Currently, he is completing a book project that explores the natural law foundations of antislavery constitutional thought in nineteenth-century America. Early research for this project has appeared in Polity, Journal of Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Perspectives on Political Science.

Courses Taught

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

Recent Representative Publications

Dyer, Justin Buckley. Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.

Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2010. “Revisiting Dred Scott: Prudence, Providence, and the Limits of Constitutional Statesmanship.” Perspectives on Political Science 39(3): 166-74.

Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2010. “Slavery and Magna Carta in American Constitutional Development.” PS: Political Science and Politics 43(3): 479-482.

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.