He is the author of Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics (St. Augustine’s Press, 2011); The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011); and the forthcoming Virtue’s Pride: Against the Secular Subversion of Christian Love (Notre Dame Press).  He is also the editor of several volumes and author of many scholarly chapters and articles dealing with the intersection of faith, reason and politics.  He has translated numerous books and articles from the French, including Pierre Manent’s Natural Law and Human Rights, and has often contributed to opinion journals and op-ed pages. 

She specializes in American political thought and constitutionalism. She was previously an APSA Congressional Fellow and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Providence College. She co-hosts the Center for Constitutional Studies' podcast, This Constitution.

She received her PhD in political science from Claremont Graduate University. Her research focuses on ideology and American political thought.

Her dissertation, What Enemy Hath Done This: The Death of the Fusion Movement and the Rise of Illiberal Conservatism, focuses on the theoretical division within the fusion (modern conservative) movement between classical liberalism and traditionalist conservatism and demonstrates how illiberalism—or the theoretical critique of liberalism—has gained the upper hand within the conservative intellectual movement over time. 

He holds a BA in Political Science and a JD from Brigham Young University, and an EdD from the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California. His dissertation analyzed the effects of collective bargaining on school-leader autonomy in California charter schools. He currently teaches Introduction to American Government.

 Jim has practiced labor and employment law for 25 years. He is a nonvoting member of the Utah Legislature’s Federalism Commission.  He recently served as the Chair of the Utah State Board of Education and has served on the Utah State Charter School Board, his local School Community Council, and the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce Education Committee.

He teaches American jurisprudence and procedure to law students in Ukraine through The Leavitt Institute for International Development, and tutored English-learner elementary-school students through the Help One Student to Succeed program. His interests include civic education, federalism, and education policy and politics.

He earned a BA from Brigham Young University, JD from BYU Law, and PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. Rebeiro's research ranges from U.S. constitutional history to comparative constitutional inquiries. He researches the philosophy of law, as well as the influence of political thought on constitutional jurisprudence. His current focus is on anti-slavery constitutional thought in the late antebellum period. He has published, and has articles forthcoming, in top journals, such as the Notre Dame Law Review, Brigham Young Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and others. His book manuscript, Frederick Douglass and Constitutional Abolitionism (under contract with Harvard University Press), investigates the constitutional thought of Frederick Douglass and its influence in the antebellum period and Reconstruction.

His research focuses on American political development, constitutional theory, and the development of representative institutions in American politics.  His research has been published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Polity, and Publius.  He also is the author of the book The Framers' Intentions: The Myth of the Nonpartisan Constitution from the University of Notre Dame Press. Professor Ross teaches courses on American politics and political theory.