Bruce P. Frohnen is Associate Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Senior Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.

He began his legal career as a resident scholar with the Heritage Foundation 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, Emory University, Oglethorpe University, Cornell College, and Reed College.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, a Master of Arts from the University of California at Davis, a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, 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. He serves as co-editor of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, which is forthcoming from ISI Books.

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