Francis Oakley
Francis Christopher Oakley (born in England in 1931) is the former Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of the History of ideas at Williams College, President Emeritus of Williams College and President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, New York. He also served as Interim Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. His research focuses on late-medieval and early-modern religious studies and history of political thought.
Works (15)

The Medieval Experience

The conciliarist tradition

The political thought of Pierre d'Ailly: the voluntarist tradition

Kingship

The western church in the later Middle Ages

Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights

From the Cast-Iron Shore

Council over Pope?

Omnipotence, covenant & order

Leadership Challenge of a College Presidency

The conciliarist tradition

The crisis of authority in Catholic modernity

Politics and Eternity

Community of learning

Governance, Accountability, and the Future of the Catholic Church