Wayne D. Moore

Wayne Moore (Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University; J.D., University of Virginia School of Law) is an associate professor of political science at Virginia Tech. His areas of teaching and research focus on constitutional law and politics in the United States, American political theory, and related fields. He has taught about constitutional law and politics in Osaka, Japan, on a Fulbright Fellowship; and he has received a Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Moore’s book, Constitutional Rights and Powers of the People (Princeton University Press, 1996), was winner of the 1997 C. Herman Pritchett Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.

Moore’s published articles and book chapters include “Constitutional Authority,” “Constitutional Citizenship,” “The Fourteenth Amendment’s Initial Authority: Problems of Constitutional Coherence,” “From Roots to Branches and Back: Popular Sovereignty Within Constitutional Theory,” “(Re)Construction of Constitutional Authority and Meaning: The Fourteenth Amendment and Slaughter-House Cases,” “Taking a Stand for Speech,” “Variable Constitutional Authority: Madisonian Founding Perspectives,” and essays on “Constitutionalism,” “Legal Positivism,” “The Fourteenth Amendment,” and “Popular Sovereignty.”

He is currently working on projects that analyze how ordinary people have created and revised constitutional norms, unofficial involvement in constitutional amending during the reconstruction era in the United States, and problems of constitutional continuity and change more generally. Moore has received multiple teaching and academic advising awards at Virginia Tech, including for his roles as University pre-law advisor.