Allen Mendenhall

I am Associate Dean and Grady Rosier Professor in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University, where I also direct the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy. My books include Literature and Liberty (2014), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon(2017), Of Bees and Boys(2017), The Southern Philosopher: Collected Essays of John William Corrington(2017), Writers on Writing: Conversations with Allen Mendenhall(2019), The Three Ps of Liberty(2020), and Shouting Softly(2021). Before joining Troy University, I was Associate Dean and Founding Executive Director of the Blackstone & Burke Center for Law & Liberty at Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Alabama. I edit Southern Literary Review and have been a visiting scholar at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), an adjunct legal associate at the Cato Institute, a Mises Emerging Scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada, an associate of the Abbeville Institute, a Humane Studies Fellow with the Institute for Humane Studies, a staff attorney for Chief Justice Roy S. Moore of the Supreme Court of Alabama, and an assistant attorney general in the State of Alabama Office of Attorney General Luther Strange. I am an elected member and trustee of the Philadelphia Society, an associated scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a policy adviser for the Heartland Institute, a former president of the Alabama Association of Scholars, and president of the Montgomery Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.

My academic writing has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and law reviews. My writing for popular media has appeared in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The American Spectator, Pacific Standard, The Hill, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Conservative, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, Public Discourse, Law & Liberty, The Freeman, Liberty, The University Bookman, The Daily Signal, Chronicles, The Christian Lawyer, The Conversation, and elsewhere. I have been quoted or cited in Forbes, The Washington Post, The National Review, Times Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, and U.S. News and World Report.