Biography
Gordon Lloyd is the Robert and Katheryn Dockson Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine
University. He 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 New Deal & Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry, was published in 2013, and he most recently released as editor, Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, in September 2014. He is the creator, with the help of the Ashbrook Center, of four
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 served on the National
Advisory Council for the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center
through the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
Education
- Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1973, Distinction
- M.A., Claremont Graduate School, 1968
- B.A., McGill University, Montreal, 1963
- Equality of Opportunity: A Century of Debate (Hoover Institution Press, June 2023)
- How Public Policy Became War with David Davenport (Hoover Institution Press, 2019)
- The Bill of Rights: Core Documents (Ashbrook Center, 2019)
- The Constitutional Convention: Core Documents (Ashbrook Center, 2018)
- Rugged Individualism: Dead or Alive? with David Davenport (Hoover Institution Press, 2017)
- The American Founding: Core Documents (Ashbrook Center, 2017)
- Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (Ashbrook Center, 2015)
- The Two Narratives of Political Economy with Nicholas Capaldi (Wiley Scrivener, 2011)
- The New Deal & Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry with David Davenport (Hoover Institution Press, 2013)
- The Two Faces of Liberalism: How the Hoover-Roosevelt Debate Shapes the 21st Century (M&M Scrivener Press, 2006)
- The Essential Antifederalist, Second Edition: Essential Arguments and Foundation Documents
1176-1791, editor with W. B. Allen (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002)
- The Essential Bill of Rights : Original Arguments and Documents, editor with Margie Lloyd (University Press of America, 1998)
- The Essential Antifederalist, editor with W. B. Allen (University Press of America, 1985)
- A Conversation about the Constitutions Relevancy, Constitution Day Lecture at the Reagan Library (September 12, 2022)
- "A Conversation about the Constitution," Constitution Day Lecture at the Reagan Library (September 15, 2021)
- "What Have We Remembered and Forgotten About the Constitution," Constitution Day Conversation at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (September
17, 2020)
- "Curating the Constitution," Constitution Day Lecture at the Reagan Library (September 17, 2019)
- "The Least Dangerous Branch," Constitution Day Lecture at the Reagan Library (September 17, 2018)
- "The Lost Art of Compromise," Constitution Day Lecture at the Reagan Library (September 11, 2017)
- "A Tour of Philadelphia: Taverns, Boarding Houses, and the Constitution," Constitution Day Lecture at the Reagan Library (September 14, 2016)
- "Delegate Madison and the Holy Grail," Constitution Day Lecture at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (September
22, 2015)
- "It's Time to Stop Blaming our Founding Fathers," Constitution Day Lecture at the Reagan Library (September 11, 2014)
- "Ten Ways to Love Your Framers," Constitution Day Lecture at the Reagan Library (September 17, 2013)
- "The Political Economy of the American Founding: A Constitutional Interpretation of
Economic Theory," Constitution Day Lecture at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy (September
18, 2013)
