Dr. Justin Dyer is Dean of the
School of Civic Leadership, founding director of the
Civitas Institute, professor of government, and Jack G. Taylor Regents Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Dyer specializes in American political thought, jurisprudence, and constitutionalism, with a focus on natural law philosophy. He has authored or edited eight books and numerous articles, essays, and book reviews. His latest book, co-authored with Kody Cooper, is
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding (2022, Cambridge University Press). Previous publications include
C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law (2016), Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning (2013), and
Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition (2012), all published by Cambridge University Press. Dyer is also a co-editor of the two-volume constitutional law casebook
American Constitutional Law (4th edition, West Academic), widely used in universities across the country. Prior to his current position, he was a professor of political science at the University of Missouri and the founding director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. Dyer earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from The University of Texas at Austin after attending the University of Oklahoma on a wrestling scholarship.