Mickey Edwards, John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. visiting professor, teaches public leadership in Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs.  He previously served as a member of Congress for 16 years, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for 11 years, and first joined the Princeton Faculty in 2004 before returning to Washington as vice president of the Aspen Institute and director of a fellowship program for promising young elected officials, whose alumni include the vice president of the United States, current and former Cabinet Secretaries, governors, members of the U.S. House and Senate, and mayors of many of America's largest cities.

Edwards writes and teaches about constitutional democracy, Congress, and political party systems.  He has been a weekly opinion columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times and broadcast a weekly commentary on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered".  His articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Daedalus, The American Purpose, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications.  He has lectured or taught classes on Congress, Law, and Foreign Policy, at many of America's leading universities.  He has also chaired or served on task forces of the American Bar Association, the American Society for International Law, the Brookings Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations.  He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His most recent books are "The Parties Versus the People" (Yale University Press), "Congress: The First Branch", co-author (Oxford University Press), and "Reclaiming Conservatism" (Oxford University Press).