RADFORD -- Radford University political science chair Matt Franck will be a visiting fellow at Princeton University for the 2008-09 academic year under the auspices of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

Franck will be completing Strict Scrutiny, a book about the use and abuse of language by the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition, Franck will be pursuing another writing project using the papers of well-known Princeton political scientist Edward S. Corwin, who profoundly influenced the study of the Supreme Court in the early 20th century.

“I am honored and delighted to be asked to join Princeton’s James Madison Program as a Visiting Fellow next year,” Franck said. “I have spoken to a number of colleagues from other institutions who have spent a year at Princeton under these auspices, and they have all raved about what a fruitful time they had there. I appreciate the support of the RU administration, and my colleagues in the political science department, in making this leave of absence possible for me.”

Founded in 2000, the James Madison Program brings together annually a half dozen visiting fellows who have overlapping interests from the disciplines of political science, history, philosophy and law and invites them to interact and participate in lecture series, conferences and informal gatherings.

Franck presented a lecture, “The Supreme Court and the Inversion of the Due Process Clauses,” at Princeton in October 2006 as part of the university’s Alpheus T. Mason lecture series focusing on constitutional law and political thought.

Franck has taught constitutional law, American politics and political philosophy at RU since 1989. He has been a Fulbright professor of American studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, and a Henry J. Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Franck has published two books and contributed to two others and has published many essays and reviews and is a regular blogger on National Review Online’s Bench Memos page.