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James L. Oberstar Professor of Law and Public Policy

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Curriculum Vitae

BOOKS

Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age (Eerdmans Publishing 2023)

Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, and Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property (with Roman Cholij and Simon R. Ravenscroft) (Cambridge University Press 2019)

Religion and the Constitution (with Michael W. McConnell and Christopher Lund)(Wolters Kluwer 4th ed. 2016)

The State and Religion in a Nutshell (Thomson/Reuters 3d ed. 2016)

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

“Life Patents, Religion, and Justice: A Summary of Themes,” in Patents on Life, supra

“Antonin Scalia: Devout Christian; Worldly Judge?,” in Christianity and American Jurists (Daniel Dreisbach and Mark Hall eds., Cambridge University Press 2019)

“Religious Voluntarism,” in Blackwell's Companion to Religious Pluralism (Kevin Schilbrack ed., Blackwell's Publishers forthcoming 2020)

“'Christian Bigots' and 'Muslim Terrorists': Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age,” in Freedom of, for, and from Religion: Conceptualizing a Common Right (W. Cole Durham, Jr., Javier Martínez-Torrón, and Donlu Thayer, eds., Routledge forthcoming 2020)

"Freedom to Serve: Religious Organizational Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Common Good," in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground (William Eskridge, Jr. and Robin Fretwell Wilson eds., Cambridge University Press 2018)

"Protecting Religious Liberty and Same-Sex Marriage," 99 Virginia Law Review Online (2013) (with Douglas Laycock), expanded version in Religion and Equality (W. Cole Durham and Donlu Thayer eds., Ashgate Press, 2016)

"Progressive Arguments for Religious Organizational Freedom," 21 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 279 (2013)

"Intellectual Property and the Preferential Option for the Poor," 5 Journal of Catholic Social Thought 193 (2008)

"Minority Religions and the Religion Clauses," 82 Washington University Law Quarterly 919 (2004)

"Religious Conservatives and the Death Penalty," 9 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 31 (2000)

"Church-State Relations and the Social Ethics of Reinhold Niebuhr," 73 North Carolina Law Review 1567 (1995)

PRESENTATIONS

"Partly Acculturated Religion and Religious Freedom," Notre Dame Law School, Yale Law School, November 2015

"Kamm Memorial Lecture," Can Religious Liberty and Political Progressivism Coexist?," Wheaton College, April 2013