Professor Pierceson holds a B.A. in History from Knox College and a Ph.D. in Politics from Brandeis University and has been teaching at UIS since the fall of 2005.
His teaching and research focuses on public law, the legal and political issues relating to sexuality, and political theory. He is the author of Courts, Liberalism, and Rights: Gay Law and Politics in the United States and Canada published by Temple University Press in 2005. Professor Pierceson also teaches in the Legal Studies program at UIS.
Courses taught include: Law and Inequality, Law and Society, Seminar in Law and Politics, American Constitution and Constitutional Law, American Political Thought, and Introduction to Political Philosophy.
Publications:
Courts, Liberalism, and Rights: Gay Law and Politics in the United States and Canada
Moral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage: Advancing the Public Good
