Donald L. Drakeman is Distinguished Research Professor in the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government at the University of Notre Dame, and a Fellow of the Centre for Health Leadership and Enterprise at the University of Cambridge. His writings have been cited by the Supreme Courts of the United States and the Philippines. His next book is The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of Conscience (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2026). He has previously published eight books, including From Breakthrough to Blockbuster: The Business of Biotechnology (Oxford University Press, 2022), The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Why We Need the Humanities (Palgrave, 2016), and Church, State, and Original Intent (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is also an award-winning life sciences entrepreneur who founded the biotech company that created the cancer treatments cited in the 2018 Nobel Prize. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Dartmouth College; a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and he was the founding chair of the Advisory Council for the James Madison Program on American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.