Bio:

Professor Forte was a Bradley Scholar at the Heritage Foundation, and Visiting Scholar at the Liberty Fund. He has been President of the Ohio Association of Scholars, served on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Society, and is also an adjunct Scholar at the Ashbrook Institute. He was Vice-Chair of the Ohio State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He has also been a Civil War re-enactor and a Merit Badge Counselor for the Boy Scouts.

He writes and speaks nationally on topics such as constitutional law, natural law, constitutional history, religious liberty, Islamic law, the rights of families, and international affairs. He served as book review editor for the American Journal of Jurisprudence and has edited a volume entitled, Natural Law and Contemporary Public Policy, published by Georgetown University Press. His book, Islamic Law Studies: Classical and Contemporary Applications, has been published by Austin & Winfield. He is Senior Editor of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (2006) 2d., ed (2013) published by Regnery & Co, a clause by clause analysis of the Constitution of the United States.