Eric R. Claeys is Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. In his scholarship, he studies theories of natural law and natural rights and their implications in property law. He is currently writing Natural Property Rights. He is a member of the American Law Institute, he serves on the ALI’s Members’ Consultative Group for the first Restatement of Copyright, and he also serves as an adviser to the Restatement (Fourth) of the Law of Property. He received his AB from Princeton University and his JD from the University of Southern California Law School. He taught at Saint Louis University, the University of Chicago Law School, and Harvard Law School, and he is a member of the Princeton Politics Department’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.