Stephan Stohler is a Benjamin Franklin Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also pursuing a J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and holds an Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Doctoral Fellowship through the Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict.

Stephan’s research focuses on comparative constitutional law and politics.  He is interested in the regulation and impact of hate speech and questions of campaign finance.  Stephan is also engaged in a projected that focuses on different constitutional attempts to protect individual property.  Stephan has worked with the Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies and the University of Liberia on a constitutional reform project in Monrovia, Liberia. He also spent a summer in Cape Town, South Africa researching the consequences of South Africa’s Land Claims Commission.

Stephan can be contacted at sstohler@sas.upenn.edu.