Academics

Meet the Faculty

Gordon Lloyd, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Policy

Office: School of Public Policy (SPP)
Phone: (310) 506-7602
Fax: (310) 506-7494
E-mail: gordon.lloyd@pepperdine.edu

• Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1973, Distinction
• M.A., Claremont Graduate School, 1968
• B.A., McGill University, Montreal, 1963

Professor Gordon Lloyd earned his bachelor of arts degree in economics and political science at McGill University. He completed all the course work toward a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago before receiving his master of arts and PhD degrees in government at Claremont Graduate School. The coauthor of three books on the American founding and sole author of a book on the political economy of the New Deal, he also has numerous articles, reviews, and opinion-editorials to his credit. His latest coauthored book, The Two Narratives of Political Economy, was published in 2010. He is the creator, with the help of the Ashbrook Center, of three highly regarded websites on the origin of the Constitution. He has received many teaching, scholarly, and leadership awards including admission to Phi Beta Kappa and the Howard White Award for Teaching Excellence at Pepperdine University. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council for the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center through the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

Courses:

• MPP 600 Roots of American Order: What is Public Policy?
• MPP 647 Race and the Constitution
• MPP 641 Public Policy and Social Regulation: The Rehnquist Court
• MPP 648 Public Policy and the Political Economy

Academic Interests:

• Bill of Rights
• California Constitution
• Common Law
• Government
• Political Economy
• Slavery
• Statecraft
• Supreme Court
• The New Deal

Selected Links:

• Vita (PDF)
• The Constitutional Convention
• The American Founding
• The New Deal
• Constitutional Law Cases: Rehnquist Court
• Intellectual Foundations of Political Economy
• French Revolutions