P. Allan Dionisopoulos (May 9, 1921 – July 6, 1993) was an American

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

and

legal scholar Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

. A nationally recognized authority on the U.S. Constitution, his works have been quoted in U.S. Supreme Court decisions, as well as by a U.S. District Court in a Watergate-related case. After earning several degrees from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, Dionisopoulos earned his Ph.D. from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

in 1960. Dionisopoulos was a professor of political science at

Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois. It was founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895, by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld as part of an expansion of the state's system ...

. He died in 1993 of congestive heart failure in Kishwaukee Community Hospital,

DeKalb, Illinois DeKalb ( ) is a city in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. The population was 43,862 according to the 2010 census, up from 39,018 at the 2000 census. The city is named after decorated Franconian- French war hero Johann de Kalb, who died ...

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1921 births 1993 deaths American legal scholars American political scientists Northern Illinois University faculty University of Minnesota alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni 20th-century political scientists {{US-scientist-stub