Justin Buckley Dyer was, until June 2022, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri. Last month, Justin took on the roles of Professor of Government and Executive Director of the newly formed Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Among his many authored, co-authored, and edited books are Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning; Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition; and American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence.