About Adam J MacLeod
Adam J. MacLeod is Professor of Law at St. Mary’s University in Texas. He is also a Research Fellow of the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy and a Senior Scholar and former Thomas Edison Fellow in the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy at George Mason University. He has been a visiting fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and remains a faculty member in the James Madison Program’s summer graduate seminar on the Moral Foundations of Law. He teaches courses concerning property, intellectual property, jurisprudence, and private rights theory, and speaks in academic and public venues about private rights and private ordering.
Professor MacLeod is co-editor of Christie and Martin’s Jurisprudence (4th edition, West Academic 2020) and Foundations of Law (Carolina Academic Press 2017). He is the author of Property and Practical Reason (Cambridge University Press 2015), The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal (Rowman and Littlefield 2020), and articles, essays, and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals and law reviews in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. He contributes to journals of news and public opinion such as National Review Online, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, New Boston Post, Public Discourse, the Library of Liberty, and Law & Liberty.
Professor MacLeod received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Gordon College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School. After law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Justice Christopher Armstrong and Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and to Chief Judge Lewis Babcock of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. He entered private practice in the Boston area, where he litigated and tried cases, and has held appointments as a special Deputy Attorney General of Alabama and special counsel to the Governor of Alabama. He serves as a legal staff officer and Operational Auxiliarist in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Professor MacLeod lives in Texas with the joys of his life, his wife and daughters.
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