Robert Lowry Clinton received his Ph.D. in government from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently professor and chair of the department of political science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dr. Clinton has published two books and twenty articles in periodicals such as First Things, the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, and the Journal of Supreme Court History. In 2001, he gave a nationally-televised address at the U. S. Supreme Court.

Dr. Clinton's most recent book, God and Man in the Law, ranges widely over the fields of Anglo-American constitutional and legal history, natural law theory, political philosophy, and theology. In this volume, Clinton argues that a theistic, God-centered Constitution is more compatible with the American constitutional tradition than the agnostic, human-centered Constitution that has been developed more recently by the American judiciary.

Clinton is currently working on another book tentatively entitled Accident and Design: Materialism and Human Nature at the Dawn of the Third Millennium. This book challenges scientific naturalism and its implications for social science. In 2007-08, he will be the William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.