Frank Johnson Goodnow

Political scientist and educator, born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. An expert in constitutional and administrative law, he served as an adviser to President William Taft (1911–12) and to the Republic of China (1913–14). He taught at Columbia University (1883–1914) but left to serve as president of Johns Hopkins University (1914–29), where he was instrumental in dramatically increasing the endowment, enrollment, and curriculum. He wrote several important books, including Municipal Problems (1897), Politics and Administration (1900), and Municipal Government (1909).

He graduated from Amherst College in 1879, from the Columbia Law School in 1882, studied at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, Paris, and at the University of Berlin. He is considered an important early scholar in the field of public administration as well as administrative law. His works include:

Comparative administrative Law (1893) Municipal Problems (1897) Politics and Administration (1900) City Government in the United States (1905) Principles of the Administrative Laws of the United States (1905) Principles of Constitutional Government (1916)

He was editor of:

Selected Cases on the Law of Taxation (1905) Selected Cases on Government and Administration (1906) Social Reforms and the Constitution (1914)