Education
- BA in political science, University of Oklahoma
- MPA in public dministration, University of Oklahoma
- MA in Government, The University of Texas at Austin
- PhD in Government, The University of Texas at Austin
Books
William M.R. Simpson and Justin Buckley Dyer, eds., A History of Natural Law: From the Ancient World to the New Aristotelianism. New York: Cambridge University Press. (2026)
Dyer, Justin Buckley and Constantine Christos Vassiliou, eds. Liberal Education and Citizenship in a Free Society. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. (2023)
Cooper, Kody W. and Justin Buckley Dyer. The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding. New York: Cambridge University Press. (2022)
Donald Kommers, John Finn, Gary Jacobsohn, George Thomas, and Justin Buckley Dyer. American Constitutional Law, Vol. 1: Government Powers and Democracy, 4th ed. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing. (2018)
Donald Kommers, John Finn, Gary Jacobsohn, George Thomas, and Justin Buckley Dyer. American Constitutional Law, Vol. 2: Liberty, Community, and the Bill of Rights, 4th ed. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing. (2018)
Casey, Greg and Justin Buckley Dyer. Guide to the Missouri Constitution. New York: W.W. Norton. (2017)
Dyer, Justin Buckley and Micah J. Watson. C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law. New York: Cambridge University Press. (2016)
Dyer, Justin Buckley. Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning. New York: Cambridge University Press. (2013)
Dyer, Justin Buckley. Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition. New York: Cambridge University Press. (2012)
Dyer, Justin Buckley, ed. American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Foreword by David L. Boren. (2012)
Publications
2026
“Citizenship Before Partisanship.” In Liberal Education, Commerce, and the Public Good: Towards a Philosophically Informed School of Responsible Freedom, Industry, and Civics, eds. Steven Francis Pittz and Constantine Christos Vassiliou. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dyer, Justin Buckley and Phillip Vincent Muñoz. “Natural Law and the American Founding.” In William M.R. Simpson and Justin Buckley Dyer, eds., A History of Natural Law: From the Ancient World to the New Aristotelianism. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2024
“Constitutional Aspirationalism Revisited.” In Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity, eds. Yaniv Roznai and Ran Hirschl. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2023
“Harry Jaffa and the Idea that All Men Are Created Equal.” American Political Thought 12(2): 209-221.
2021
“Bigotry, Time, and Moral Progress.” Invited essay for a book review symposium on Linda McLain’s Who’s the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2020). In Journal of Law & Religion 36(2): 328-333.
Dyer, Justin and Erin Hawley. “Chiafalo v. Washington on Faithless Electors.” In SCOTUS 2020: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court. Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 37-46.
2020
“Reason, Revelation, and the Law of Nature in James Wilson’s Lectures on Law.” American Political Thought 9(2): 264-284.
2018
“The Substance of Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade.” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 16(2): 421-432. – 2018
“James Wilson, Necessary Truths, and the Foundations of Law.” Duquesne Law Review 56(2): 49-71.
2017
Cooper, Kody W. and Justin Buckley Dyer. “Thomas Jefferson, Nature’s God, and the Theological Foundations of Natural-Rights Republicanism.” Politics & Religion 10(3): 662-688.
“Political Science and American Political Thought.” PS: Political Science and Politics 50(3): 784-788. – 2017
Dyer, Justin and Micah Watson. “The Old Western Man: C.S. Lewis on Politics and Modernity.” Modern Age 59(4): 27-35.
Congress, the Constitution, and Abortion.” New York University Journal of Law and Liberty 11(1): 394-425.
“Constitutional Confusion: Slavery, Abortion, and Substantive Constitutional Analysis.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 76(1): 33-64.
2015
“Lewis, Barth, and the Natural Law.” Journal of Church and State 57(1): 1-17.
2013
Dyer, Justin Buckley and Kevin E. Stuart. “Public Reason and the Theological Framework of Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham City Jail.’” Politics and Religion 6(1): 145-163.
2010
“Slavery and the Magna Carta in the Development of Anglo-American Constitutionalism.” PS: Political Science and Politics 43(3): 479-482.
“Revisiting Dred Scott: Prudence, Providence, and the Limits of Constitutional Statesmanship.” Perspectives on Political Science 39(3): 166-74.
2009
“After the Revolution: Somerset and the Antislavery Tradition in Anglo-American Constitutional Development.” Journal of Politics 71(4): 1422-1434.
“Lincolnian Natural Right, Dred Scott, and the Jurisprudence of John McLean.” Polity 41(1): 63-85.
Courses
Spring 2025
- UGS 302 Constitutional Rights
Spring 2023
- GOV 357F Constitutional Structure of Power
