Francis "Frank" Herbert Buckley is a foundation professor at George Mason University School of Law where he has taught since 1989.

He has written on issues including constitutional government, the rule of law, laughter and contract theory, and the rise of Trump.

From 1999 to 2010 he was the executive director of the George Mason Law & Economics Center, which offered educational programs for judges.

Buckley is a senior editor of The American Spectator, and has also published in The Wall Street Journal, the National Post, The Dorchester Review, and the New Criterion, and has frequently been a guest on NPR, Fox News, and other talk programs.

He has written on a variety of subjects, including bike lanes, the films of John Ford, James Thurber, and Canadian politics.

Buckley and his wife Esther Goldberg wrote candidate Donald Trump's major foreign policy speech delivered at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention on March 21, 2016.