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Steven F. Hayward

Fellow; Advisor, Campus Free Expression

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Steven F. Hayward is fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and an advisor to BPC’s Campus Free Expression Project. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Hayward was previously the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy and was the inaugural visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2013–14. From 2002 to 2012, he was the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics at the American Enterprise Institute and has been senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute since 1991.

He writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post and other publications. He is the author of six books, including The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964–1980.

Hayward earned a B.S. from Lewis & Clark College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School.