Walter F. Murphy

Walter F. Murphy is a 20th century American political scientist and writer. He won a Distinguished Service Cross for his service as a Marine in Korea, eventually retiring with the rank of colonel. He held the chair of McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton. His professional writing, consisting mostly of non-fiction works on political science, includes the classic Constitutional Democracy; he has also written three popular novels.

Murphy's name was on the “Selectee List” [http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-professor-murphys-story-tells-us.html] [http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW06-07/11-0404/moment.html] which contains names of alleged potential terrorists. People on the list are harassed by 'security' staff at airports; Murphy was denied a boarding pass in Newark.