F.H. Buckley | |
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Born | 1948 (age 75–76) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Alma mater | McGill University Harvard Law School |
Francis "Frank" Herbert Buckley is a foundation professor at George Mason University School of Law where he has taught since 1989.[1] Before then he was a visiting Olin fellow at the University of Chicago Law School.[1] He has also taught at Panthéon-Assas University, Sciences Po in Paris and the McGill Faculty of Law in Montreal.[1] He practiced law for three years in Toronto.
He has written on issues including constitutional government, the rule of law, laughter and contract theory, and the rise of Trump. He is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator and other magazines and newspapers.
Buckley was born in 1948 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He attended St. Joseph's College, a boarding school in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, from which he graduated in 1965.
Buckley graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) from McGill University in Montreal in 1969. He subsequently studied at the McGill Faculty of Law, where he served as editor in chief of the McGill Law Journal (vol. 20). He received an LL.B. from McGill in 1974, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1975, with a thesis on shareholder ratification in corporate law.
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Buckley worked at a Toronto law firm as an articling student, and from 1976 to 1977 was an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. From 1977 to 1982 he was an assistant, then an associate professor at the McGill Faculty of Law. Over 1982 to 1984 he worked as a lawyer in Toronto, and from 1984 to 1989 was an associate professor at the McGill Faculty of Law. Over 1988 and 1989, on leave from McGill, he was a visiting Olin fellow at the University of Chicago Law School.
He joined the George Mason School of Law as a professor in 1989, and subsequently was appointed a foundation professor at George Mason. From 1999 to 2010 he was the executive director of the George Mason Law & Economics Center, which offered educational programs for judges. While at George Mason, he served twice as a visiting fellow and lecturer at the Sorbonne (Paris II), and also once at Sciences Po in Paris.
Buckley has published in the Journal of Legal Studies, the Virginia Law Review, the Cornell Law Journal, the International Review of Law and Economics, the UCLA Law Review, the University of Toronto Law Journal, and many other law reviews.
Buckley is a senior editor of The American Spectator, and has also published in The Wall Street Journal, the National Post, The Dorchester Review, and the New Criterion, and has frequently been a guest on NPR, Fox News, and other talk programs. He has written on a variety of subjects, including bike lanes, the films of John Ford, James Thurber, and Canadian politics.
Buckley and his wife Esther Goldberg wrote candidate Donald Trump's major foreign policy speech delivered at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention on March 21, 2016.[20] He was also a contributing speechwriter to Donald Trump Jr's July 19 address to the 2016 Republican National Convention, and defended Trump against accusations of having misappropriated phrases from Buckley's published work.[21]
In May 2022, Buckley came under criticism for a tweet in which he referred to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as a "stupid Latina".[22] He apologized the next day and deleted his twitter account.[23]
Buckley lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, Esther Goldberg. They have one daughter.
According to National Review, he is unrelated to conservative author William F. Buckley Jr.[24]