Stephen Holmes is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1976 and taught briefly at Yale and Wesleyan Universities before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1978. Subsequent appointments include Harvard University's Department of Government and the University of Chicago. From 1997-2000, Stephen Holmes was Professor of Politics at Princeton University. In 2000, he moved to New York University School of Law. He was awarded several fellowships and, among other positions, served as Director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe at the University of Chicago.Stephen Holmes' research centers on the history of European liberalism, the disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after communism, and the difficulty of combating international Salafi terrorism within the bounds of the Constitution and the rule of law. His publications include: Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (1984); Anatomy of Antiliberalism (1993); Passions and Constraint: The Theory of Liberal Democracy (1995); The Cost of Rights, coauthored, with Cass Sunstein (1998); and Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror (2007).
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