Jean-Marie Bonnet is a scholar of American legal, constitutional and political history, with extensive work on the United States Supreme Court, federalism, presidential power, and the evolution of American public institutions. He has served as a consultant to the French Ministry of Justice on the rule of law in the United States and has published widely on American studies, US constitutional history, and comparative legal themes. His lectures and research have addressed topics ranging from the American Revolution and the founding of the republic to the Supreme Court, executive authority, federalism, and the legal foundations of American economic and political power.