Edward Keynes

Edward Keynes Edward Keynes, long-time Professor of Political Science at Penn State (1976-2002), and more recently Honorary Professor at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany (1998 - 2016), died April 9, 2016, at age 75 after a lengthy illness at his Kiel home. He was preceeded in death by his brother, Penn State graduate Marvin Krasnansky. He is survived by, among others, his niece, Melanie Olsen, of Seattle. A private memorial service was held April 20, followed by a public service May, 17, both in Kiel. Keynes was a distinguished scholar and teacher over a long career in the U.S. and in Germany. His written work and teaching centered on constitutional law/public law, American politics, international relations, and the comparative politics of Western Europe. He was born in Philadelphia, did his undergraduate work at Queens College in New York, and received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1967. He held visiting professorships at Kiel, Hiroshima University in Japan, Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, Melbourne University in Australia, and Albertus Magnus University in Cologne, Germany. Among his consultantships were those with the Pennsylvania General and the U.S. House of Representatives. Keynes authored numerous publications: articles in political science and law journals, chapters in edited books, and single-authored books. The most prominent of the latter were Liberty, Property and Privacy: Toward a Jurisprudence of Substantive Due Process (1996); Undeclared War: Twilight Zone of Constitutional Power (1982); and The Court vs. Congress: Abortion, Busing and Prayer (1989). Keynes was the Acting Chair of the Institute for Political Science in Kiel 1998-2002, and co-director there of the International Symposium on National Security there in 1998. He was an Otto Wolff Foundation Fellow in Germany, a Fulbright Fellow in Japan and Germany, a George C. Marshall Fellow in Germany, a Fritz Thyssen Fellow in Germany, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany. On a more personal level, Ed was a very loyal, generous and dedicated friend to all those with whom he was closely associated. He might have been described as a "gentleman of the old school." He also had a wicked sense of humor. His passing is a great loss to all who knew him.