The Rise of Morality in Civic Discourse

Professor MacLeod has been a Thomas Edison Fellow in the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at George Mason University and a visiting fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is faculty member in the James Madison Program’s 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. He contributes to journals of news and public opinion such as the Washington Times, New Boston Post, Public Discourse, and Library of 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 is a Professorial Fellow of the Alabama Policy Institute. Professor MacLeod lives in Montgomery, Alabama with the joys of his life, his wife and daughters.