Donald Downs

Donald Downs is the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science, and Affiliate Professor of Law, and Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His scholarship has dealt with a wide range of issues dealing with such issues as freedom of speech; academic freedom; American politics; political thought; political and legal movements; citizenship; campus politics; domestic violence, psychiatry, and the criminal law; and the relationship among the military, the university, and civic education. His most recent books are Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education on Non-Military Students (Cambridge University Press, 2012), co-authored with Ilia Murtazashvili.
Prof. Downs is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies and contributor to the Open Inquiry Project, a nationwide community of faculty committed to the flourishing of free speech and independent thought on college campuses.