Geoffrey R. Stone Named Member of American Academy of Sciences and Letters
Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, was recently named a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL).
Stone is the author of numerous books on constitutional law, an editor of the Supreme Court Review, and chief editor of a twenty-five-volume series of books on constitutional law titled Inalienable Rights, which is published by the Oxford University Press. He was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, which evaluated the government’s foreign intelligence surveillance programs in the wake of Edward Snowden’s leaks.
Stone is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the America Law Institute, the National Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union, and the American Philosophical Society. He has also served as chair of the board of the American Constitution Society and chair of the Chicago Children’s Choir.
AASL also inducted the following other University of Chicago scholars as members:
- Clifford Ando (Departments of Classics and History);
- William G. Howell (Harris School);
- Luigi Zingales (Chicago Booth).
Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the Booth School, received a 2024 Barry Prize for intellectual excellence and courage.