Biography

Kauffman has been a civil rights litigator specializing in the education, voting and employment rights of Latinos. For nearly 20 years, Kauffman was the senior litigating attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in San Antonio.

As a MALDEF attorney, Kauffman was the lead attorney for plaintiffs in the Texas school finance cases, for Latino plaintiffs in the Texas Higher Education System finance and desegregation case and in litigation challenging the state’s use of the TAAS test for graduation from Texas high schools. He has also litigated affirmative action cases, local and state voting rights, employment discrimination cases, immigration and hospital admission policy cases.

After MALDEF, he served as a Senior Legal and Policy Advocate Associate for the Civil Rights Project at Harvard Law School. Subsequently, he served as the Senior Legal Policy Advocate at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at the University of California at Berkeley. While there, he wrote about civil rights issues such as voting rights, No Child Left Behind, affirmative action, and public schools’ student assignment systems.

Kauffman was part of a small team of experts involved with passing both the state’s top 10 percent rule for admission to public universities and recent changes to admission and scholarship criteria for public graduate and professional schools.

• Drum Major for Justice Award from the American Association for Affirmative Action (2013).
• Maria A. Berriozabal Visionary Leadership Award from Our Lady of the Lake University (2013).
• Texas Lawyer selection as one of “The 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter-Century,” 2010.
• Lifetime Achievement Award, St. Mary’s Law School Hispanic Law Students Association, 2009.
• Laredo Texas LULAC, Champions of Education Award, 2004.
• Editorial Advisory Committee, Harvard Latino Law Review, 2003 (national award).
• Mary’s School of Law, Sir Thomas More Award, 2003 (national award).
• Boston College, chosen to give Boisi Lecture, “The No Child Left Behind Act, Dropouts and Affirmative Action: What’s the Common Issue?” 2003 (national award).
• American GI Forum Lifetime Achievement Award, 2002.
• Columbia Law School Human Rights Law Review Annual Award for Human Rights, 2002 (national award).
• Edgewood School District Achievement Award, 2002.
• Texas LULAC Service Award, 2002.
• Amistad award Texas State IMAGE, 2000.
• PTA national Lifetime Service Award, Edgewood I.S.D. PTA 2000.
• Board of Advisors, The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues, 1999 (national award).
• Association of Higher Education – Hispanic Caucus selected to give Tomas Rivera lecture at 1997 National AHE Convention (national award).
• Texas State NAACP – Heroes Award, 1996.
• Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities – P. Gus Cardenas National Service to Higher Education Award – 1995 (national award).
• Texas Lawyer, selected one of ten most influential lawyers in Texas for decade 1985-1995.
• Hero for Children Award, Texas State Board of Education, 1994.
• Henry B. Gonzalez Award, Legal Achievement – St. Mary’s Law School Hispanic Alumni, 1994.
• Edgewood Plaintiffs Award – Service to Low-Wealth Districts, 1994.
• San Antonio Chapter, ACLU – John Henry Faulk Liberty Award, 1992.
• Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education – Meritorious Service Award, 1992.
• Association of Higher Education – Hispanic Caucus Lifetime Achievement Award, 1992
• Texas Mexican American Bar Association – Lifetime Achievement Award, 1992.
• Incarnate Word College – “Insigne Verbum” Award, 1992.
• San Antonio Mind Science Foundation, Imagineer Award, 1992.
• McAllen Tripas Club, “Tripero Distinguido,” 1990.
• Texas GI Forum Education Award, 1990.
• Texas Mexican American Bar Association Education Award, 1990.
• Harlandale I.S.D. Education Award, 1989.
• San Antonio Bilingual Education Trendsetter, 1988.
• Texas LULAC “Educacion – La Solucion,” 1988.
• Edgewood I.S.D., “Amigos de Edgewood”, 1987.
• Socorro I.S.D. Educational Achievement Award, 1987.
• Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, 1986.
• Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans, 1984.

Articles in a Periodical

• Supreme Court sets stage for partisan gerrymandering standards, San Antonio Express News, June 30, 2018
• Constitution does not guarantee right to bear an AR-15, San Antonio Express News, April 8, 2018; also in News Taco, April 9, 2018
• Latino Organizations Thrived in San Antonio in 1960s, chapter in “300 Years of San Antonio & Bexar County,” (Trinity University Press 2018)
• Moving from packing and cracking to fairness, San Antonio Express News, October 29, 2017; also in News Taco, https://newstaco.com/2017/11/01/gerrymandering-moving-cracking-packing-fairness/
• Texas must have the courage-and honor-to settle redistricting, San Antonio Express News, May 20, 2017 ; also in News Taco https://newstaco.com/2017/05/22/80036/
• Texas Supreme Court Retreats from Finance Battles, 19 The Scholar: St. Mary’s L. Rev. on Racial & Soc’l Just. 145 (2017)
• Effective Litigation Strategies to Improve State Education and Social Service Systems, 45 J. L. & Educ. 453 (2016)
• Albert Kauffman, The Barriers and Route to Texas School Finance Equity, 1Tex. Educ. Rev. 27 (2013)(Online).
• Tribute, Judge William Wayne Justice: A Life of Human Dignity and Refractory Mules, St. Mary’s Law Journal, 215-230 (2010).
• Introduction to Issue: Education and Minorities in the Modern Era: Working Civil Rights Into Practice, Policy and Procedure, The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues , 101-108 (2010).
• The Texas School Finance Litigation Saga: Great Progress, Then Near Death By A Thousand Cuts, 40 St. Mary’s Law Journal 511-579 (2008).
• Accessibility to Comprehensive Higher Education in Texas, 31 The Social Science Journal 263 (1994) (with Richard Jones)
• Applying Edgewood v. Kirby to Analysis of Fundamental Rights Under the Texas Constitution, 22 St. Mary’s Law Journal 69 (1991) (with Carmen Rumbaut)

Shorter Works in Collections

• Texas School Finance Litigation: Great Progress and Some Regression, in Institute for Educational Equity and Opportunity, A Quality Education for Every Child: Stories from the Lawyers on the Front Lines, pp.109-155 (David Long, et al. ed., 2009).
• A Continuation of an Analysis of School Finance Cases Comparing Adequacy and Equity Theories, Albert H. Kauffman. Rockefeller Foundation. 01/2004. p. 26.
• A Comparison of Equity and Adequacy School Finance Cases and a Consideration of the Current New York and California School Finance Litigation on the Equity and Adequacy Dimensions, Albert H. Kauffman. Rockefeller Foundation. 01/2003. p. 26.
• The Hopwood Case: What It Says and What It Doesn’t, chapter in Affirmative Action’s Testament of Hope: Strategies for a New Era in Higher Education by Mildred Garcia, State University of New York Press (1997).
• Minority Concerns: A Response to TASP, Chapter in From Politics to Policy: A Case Study in Educational Reform, Matthews, Swanson, Kerker, Praeger Press, (New York, NY 1991).No Child Left Behind Act Resource Guide, The Civil Rights Project at Harvard (2004) (with Dan Losen)
• Lead writer and lead researcher on large number of briefs to U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and numerous U.S. District Courts on issues of school finance, testing, higher education finance, affirmative action, and voting rights.

Op-Eds

• Commentary: Constitution does not guarantee right to bear an AR-15, McAllen Monitor, April 22, 2018.
• Commentary: Gerrymandering Affect Voter Turnout, McAllen Monitor, November 5, 2017.
• Stand Up, Texas, and Fix Redistricting, San Antonio Express-News, May 21, 2017.
• Courts rightfully stop unconstitutional executive order on immigration, San Antonio Express-News, April 1,2017.
• Texans deserves the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, San Antonio Express-News, Oct. 8, 2016.
• Court missed opportunity to promote diversity, San Antonio Express-News, June 27, 2016.
• Border higher ed gains began with a lawsuit, San Antonio Express-News, May 21, 2016.
• On school funding, the needed next steps will be hard, Houston Chronicle, May 13, 2016.

Presentations

• History of School Finance Issues in Texas, Say Si youth project, San Antonio, June, 2017.
• Reflections of Texas Scholars on Growing up in Texas, American Education Research Association national convention, San Antonio, April 2017.
• Civil and Criminal Procedures, The U.S Legal System and the Mexican Oral Trials Course, St. Mary’s University, August 2016.
• Panel: The Fisher Decision, 7th Annual Texas Higher Education Symposium, Austin, Texas August, 2016.
• United States Legal Systems, Presentation to law students at Universidad Enrique Diaz de Leon, Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico, March, 2016. (In Spanish)
• School Finance Update to San Antonio Inns of Court, February 2015.
• Phoenix Law School, Phoenix Arizona, presentation to faculty on Wal-Mart case and class actions, Nov. 2011.
• Phoenix Law School, Phoenix Arizona, presentation to students on effects of litigation on societal change, Nov. 2011.
• Texas Tech Law School, presentation to faculty on Wal-Mart case and class actions, Oct. 2011.
• “A Comparison of Fifth Circuit and Texas Class Action Cases—Worse and Worser: No Class Left in Texas” New Scholars Workshop, August 2, 2010, Southeast Association of Law Schools, Palm Beach Florida.
• Hispanic National Bar Association annual convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 8, 2010, Latino Education issues.

Biography

St. Mary’s University School of Law Professor Dorie Klein, J.D., writes and teaches in the areas of evidence, criminal law and mental health law. Her recent scholarship includes several law review articles examining the pitfalls of character evidence, as well as several articles exploring ways to reduce the excessive punitiveness of criminal punishments. In 2022 Carolina Academic Press published the second edition of her casebook, Texas Criminal Law. In addition to teaching core courses in evidence and criminal law, Klein has developed upper-level writing seminars that focus on a variety of specialized subjects, including mental health law, the law of self-defense and the operation of appellate courts.

Prior to joining the St. Mary’s law faculty in 2006,  Klein was a visiting assistant professor of law at Florida State University and a judicial clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She received her J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University, where she was an articles editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review. Klein also holds an M.A. degree in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in biopsychology from Swarthmore College. She worked as a community mental health therapist for several years before attending law school.

• The (Mis)application of Rule 404(b) Heuristics, 72 U. Miami L. Rev. 706 (2018).
• Texas Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 2017).
• Exemplary and Exceptional Confusion Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, 46 Hofstra L. Rev. 641 (2017).
• Is Felony Murder the New Depraved Heart Murder? Considering the Appropriate Punishment for Drunken Drivers Who Kill, 67 S.C. L. Rev. 1 (2015).
• The Dignity of the Human Person: Catholic Social Teaching and the Practice of Criminal Punishment, 60 Loy. L. Rev. 1 (2014).
• The Costs of Delay: Incompetent Criminal Defendants, Involuntary Antipsychotic Medications, and the Question of Who Decides, 16 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 203 (2013).
• When Coercion Lacks Care: Competency to Make Medical Treatment Decisions and Parens Patriae Civil Commitments, 45 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 561 (2012).

Articles in a Periodical

• “Rule of Inclusion” Confusion, 58 San Diego L. Rev. 379 (2021)
• When Coercion Lacks Care: Competency to Make Medical Treatment Decisions and Parens Patriae Civil Commitments, 45 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 561 (2012).
• The Mentally Disordered Criminal Defendant at the Supreme Court: A Decade in Review, 91 Or. L. Rev. 207 (2012).
• Rehabilitating Mental Disorder Evidence After Clark v. Arizona, 60 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 645 (2010).
• Unreasonable: Involuntary Medications, Incompetent Criminal Defendants, and the Fourth Amendment, 46 San Diego L. Rev. 161 (2009).
• Autonomy and Acute Psychosis: When Choices Collide, 15 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 355 (2008) (review essay of Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness).
• Categorical Exclusions from Capital Punishment: How Many Wrongs Make A Right? 72 Brook. L. Rev. 1211 (2007).
• Curiouser and Curiouser: Involuntary Medications and Incompetent Criminal Defendants After Sell v. United States, 13 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 871 (2005).
• Involuntary Treatment of the Mentally Ill: Autonomy is Asking the Wrong Question, 27 Vt. L. Rev. 649 (2003).
• Beyond Brown v. Board of Education: The Need to Remedy the Achievement Gap, 31 J.L. & Educ. 431 (2002).
• Note, Trial Rights and Psychotropic Drugs, 55 Vand. L. Rev. 165 (2002).

Biography

Liu is a professor of law at St. Mary’s University School of Law. Since joining St. Mary’s in 2007, he has taught Law and Economics, Torts, European Union Law, and Chinese Law. Liu’s research focuses on the interplay between food and drug law and transnational litigation from a comparative perspective.

His scholarly writings appeared in the Stanford Journal of International Law, Cornell International Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, University of Texas Journal of International Law, Mississippi Law Journal, and Washington University Journal of Law and Policy.

Liu is the author of a book entitled Chinese Law on SARS. His recent research on the regulation of organic food certification was cited in the Wall Street Journal.

Liu has taught European Union Law in the University of San Diego’s summer program in London, UK, and the St. Mary’s University summer program in Innsbruck, Austria. He has also taught Chinese Law in the St. Mary’s Institute on Chinese Law and Business at Beihang University in Beijing. He is a recipient of the 2018-2019 St. Mary’s University Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award.

Books

• (With Vincent R. Johnson), Studies in American Tort Law, 7th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2022)
• (With Vincent R. Johnson), Teaching Torts: A Teacher’s Guide to Studies in American Tort Law, 7th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2022)
• Chinese Law in Context, Carolina Academic Press, 2020
• Chinese Law on SARS, Hein, 2004

Articles

• Beyond Compulsory Licensing: Pfizer Shares Its COVID-19 Medicines with the Patent Pool 25 New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, 1 (2022)
• The World Health Organization: A Weak Defender Against Pandemics, 28 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, 174 (2021)
• Confucius and the Chinese Legal Tradition, 28 Michigan State International Law Review 477 (2020)
• Socialized Liability in Chinese Tort Law, 59 Harvard International Law Journal Online 16, (2018)
• Risks Faced by Foreign Lawyers in China, 35 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 131, (2018)
• The Development of Chinese Constitutionalism, 48 St. Mary’s Law Journal 199, (2017)
• Escaping Liability via Forum Non Conveniens, 17 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, 137 (2014)
• Leaving the FDA Behind: Pharmaceutical Outsourcing and Drug Safety, 48 Texas International Law Journal, 1 (2012)
• Is “USDA ORGANIC” a Seal of Deceit? The Pitfalls of USDA Certified Organics Produced in the United States, China and Beyond, 47 Stanford Journal of International Law 333 (2011).
• The Obstacles of Outsourcing Imported Food Safety To China, 43 Cornell Journal of International Law 249, (Lead Article, 2010).
• Profits Above The Law: China’s Melamine Tainted Milk Scandal, 79 Mississippi Law Journal 371, (2009).
• The Chinese Takings Law From A Comparative Perspective, 26 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 301, (2008).
• Informal Rules, Transaction Costs And The Failure Of Chinese Takings Law 29 Hastings International & Comparative Law Review 1 (Lead Article, 2005). (Reprinted in Jose Maria Serna de la Garza,Derecho Comparado Asia-Mexico. Culturas y Sistemas Juridicos Comparados, IIJ-UNAM, 2007)
• Regulating SARS In China: Law As An Antidote? 4 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 81(2005). (Reprinted in Stoltzfus Jost, Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics,Carolina Academic Press, 2007)

Media Highlights

• Not All Organic Food Labels are Created Equal, Forbes, Nov. 11, 2015
• Is ‘organic’ really organic? A deep dive into the dirt, CNBC, Nov. 4, 2015
• Organic-Farming Boom Stretches Certification System, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 9, 2014
• A Breach of Defense against the Ebola Virus, The Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 3, 2014

Biography

MacLeod is Professor of Law at the St. Mary’s University School of Law. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy, and he lectures in the James Madison Program’s summer seminar on the Moral Foundations of Law at Princeton University. MacLeod has been a fellow at Princeton University and George Mason University, lecturer in the Alabama Judicial College, special Deputy Attorney General of Alabama, and an Auxiliary advisor to active duty and auxiliary commands in the U.S. Coast Guard. Before his academic career, he practiced law in Boston and served as law clerk to Chief Justice Christopher Armstrong and Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and then-Chief Judge Lewis T. Babcock of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

MacLeod is the author of four books, dozens of book chapters and scholarly articles, and more than one hundred essays and book reviews. His published writings include Property and Practical Reason (Cambridge University Press 2015), peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the Modern Law Review and Journal of Law & Religion, and law review articles in journals such as the Notre Dame Law Review and Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Gordon College and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame.

Books

• With George C. Christie and Patrick H. Martin, Jurisprudence: Text and Readings on the Philosophy of Law (4th ed., West Academic Publishing 2020)
• The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Right(s) When the Stakes Are Personal (Rowman & Littlefield 2020)
• With Robert L. McFarland, Foundations of Law (Carolina Academic Press 2017)
• Property and Practical Reason (Cambridge University Press 2015)

Book Chapters

• To Caesar (Only) What is Caesar’s, in SOCIAL CONSERVATISM FOR THE COMMON GOOD: A PROTESTANT ENGAGEMENT WITH ROBERT P. GEORGE (Andrew Walker, ed., Crossway 2022)
• The Boundaries of Dominion, in CHRISTIANITY AND PRIVATE LAW (Robert Cochran and Michael Moreland, eds., Routledge 2020)
• The Substantial Burden Test in RLUIPA, in ZONING AND PLANNING LAW HANDBOOK (Patricia E. Salkin, ed., West Publishing 2012)

Academic Articles

• A Workable Common-Law Baseline for Regulatory Takings, __ Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy __ (2025) (symposium issue)
• Foundations of the Right of Charitable Uses, __ Mississippi Law Journal __ (2025) (selected for M.L.J. Peer Review Forum)
• Children and Chairs, Artifacts and Reality, 74 Catholic University Law Review __ (2024) (invited for symposium issue)
• The First Amendment, Discrimination, and Public Accommodations at Common Law, 112 Kentucky Law Journal 209 (2024)
• Why Equity Follows the Law, 13 Laws 3 (2024) (invited lead article for peer-reviewed symposium issue)
• Is, Ought, and the Limited Competence of Experts, Journal of Religion, Culture and Democracy (December 6, 2023) (invited for peer-reviewed symposium issue)
• Vested Patents and Equal Justice, 72 Catholic University Law Review 359 (2023)
• Opus as the Core of Property, 9 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 637 (2023) (invited for symposium issue)
• The Bare Necessity of Natural Law, 2023 Journal of Christian Legal Thought 13 (2023) (invited)
• What Makes Property Liberal?, 84 Modern Law Review 1427 (2021)
• Cyber Trespass and Property Concepts, 10 IP Theory 4 (2021)
• Group Ownership and the Ends of Legal Artifacts, 13 Faulkner Law Review 1 (2021) (invited lead article in symposium issue)
• Public Rights After Oil States Energy, 95 Notre Dame Law Review 1281 (2020)
• Review of Great Christian Jurists in English History, 34 Journal of Law and Religion 123 (2019)
• Patent Infringement as Trespass, 69 Alabama Law Review 723 (2018)
• Of Brutal Murder and Transcendental Sovereignty: The Meaning of Vested Private Rights, 41 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 253 (2018)
• Metaphysical Right and Practical Obligations, 48 University of Memphis Law Review 431 (2017)
• Tempering Civil Rights Conflicts: Common Law for the Moral Marketplace, 2016 Michigan State Law Review 643
• Strategic and Tactical Totalization in the Totalitarian Epoch, 5 British Journal of American Legal Studies 57 (2016)
• Rights, Privileges, and the Future of Marriage Law, 28 Regent University Law Review 71 (2015) (invited)
• Bridging the Gaps in Property Theory, 77 Modern Law Review 1009 (2014)
• Universities as Constitutional Lawmakers, 17 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Online 1 (2014)
• Private Rights and Duties, 6 Faulkner Law Review 65 (2014) (invited)
• Identifying Values in Land Use Regulation, 101 Kentucky Law Journal 55 (2012)
• The Mystery of Life in the Laboratory of Democracy: Personal Autonomy in State Law, 59 Cleveland State Law Review 589 (2012)
• Resurrecting the Bogeyman: The Curious Forms of the Substantial Burden Test in RLUIPA, 40 Real Estate Law Journal 115 (2011)
• Empathy’s White Elephant: Responding to the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Without Denigrating the Poor, 9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 283 (2011)
• A Non-Fatal Collision: Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, 42 Urban Lawyer 41 (2010)
• A Gift Worth Dying For?: Debating the Volitional Nature of Suicide in Personal Property Law, 45 Idaho Law Review 93 (2008)
• The Search for Moral Neutrality in Same-Sex Marriage Decisions, 23 BYU Journal of Public Law 1 (2008)
• All for One: A Review of Victim-centric Justifications for Criminal Punishment, 13 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 31 (2008)

Essays and Reviews

MacLeod has written more than one hundred essays and book reviews for a variety of audiences. The following list is representative.

• How Law Lost Its Way, Touchstone Magazine (September 2024)
• Rights, Duties, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75, Law & Liberty (November 16, 2023)
• Still Alive and Well, Law & Liberty (October 3, 2023)
• Fictions and Lies in a Lawless Age, Public Discourse (February 20, 2022) (reviewing Stephen D. Smith, Fictions, Lies and the Authority of Law)
• The Problem-Solving Framers, Law & Liberty (October 6, 2021) (reviewing Donald Drakeman, The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory)
• With Andrew Koppelman, Between the Trenches of the Culture Wars, But Not With Ill Will: An Exchange, Public Discourse (January 7, 2021)
• Making Cyber Criminals Walk the Constitutional Plank, Law & Liberty (November 23, 2020)
• Natural Law for a Lawless People, Public Discourse (September 10, 2020) (reviewing Kody Cooper, Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law)
• Bagehot and the Causes of Our Crisis, Online Library of Liberty (January 3, 2020) (lead essay in symposium on The English Constitution) (invited)
• Sovereignty and the Rule of Law (January 28, 2020)
• Bagehot as Aristotle (January 30, 2020)
• Review of GREAT CHRISTIAN JURISTS IN ENGLISH HISTORY, 34 Journal of Law and Religion 123 (2019) (invited)
• Piracy, Protests, and the Problem of China, Public Discourse (October 28, 2019)
• Toward a Productive Discussion About Immigration, Public Discourse (September 4, 2019)
• A Case of Stolen Jurisprudence in Kansas, Public Discourse (June 12, 2019)
• Ordered Liberty and the Demands of Law, Law & Liberty (April 1, 2019) (reviewing BRIAN MCCALL, THE ARCHITECTURE OF LAW) (invited)
• Legislatures Cannot Abolish Marriage, Public Discourse (November 20, 2018)
• Where Do Our Rights Come From? An Evaluation of American Patent Law, Starting Points Journal (October 22, 2018)
• How Legislatures Can Combat the Problem of Judicial Supremacy and Protect Human Rights, Public Discourse (September 24, 2018) (reviewing Webber et al, LEGISLATED RIGHTS: SECURING HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH LEGISLATION)
• Racism, the Legacy Museum, and the Costs of Self-Deception, Public Discourse (August 1, 2018)
• The Human Element in Property, The American Project (April 2, 2018)
• Review of INSIDE THE MIND OF THOMAS MORE: THE WITNESS OF HIS WRITINGS, 11 Journal of Faith & the Academy 112 (2018)
• Our Universal and Particular Constitution, Public Discourse (October 4, 2018)
• The Thousands-Year Old Constitution, Public Discourse (October 2, 2018)
• Equal Property Rights for All, Including Christian Wedding Cake Bakers, Public Discourse (November 30, 2017)
• The Impoverishment of Law and the Loss of Ordered Liberty, Public Discourse (November 6, 2017) (Part 2 of a review ofJohn Corvino, Ryan T. Anderson, and Sherif Girgis, DEBATING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND DISCRIMINATION)
• Debating Liberty, Public Discourse (November 5, 2017) (Part 1 of a review of John Corvino, Ryan T. Anderson, and Sherif Girgis, DEBATING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND DISCRIMINATION)
• Law Schools Guard Entry Into the Profession and Should Teach Virtue, James G. Martin Center (July 26, 2017)
• Kuyper and Pope Leo as Christian Thinkers, Public Discourse (May 12, 2017)
• Legal Fictions Matter: A Reply to S. Adam Seagrave, Public Discourse (February 7, 2017)
• (Natural) Law Matters, Public Discourse (February 2, 2017) (A review of Richard Helmholz, NATURAL LAW IN COURT)
• That Time I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket Into the Constitutional Trial of the Century, Public Discourse (January 13, 2017)
• (Natural) Law Matters, Public Discourse (February 2, 2017) (A review of Richard Helmholz, Natural Law in Court)
• That Time I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket Into the Constitutional Trial of the Century, Ars Technica (January 20, 2017)
• The Third Amendment: A Neglected Measure for a Skeptical Age, Washington Times Special Bill of Rights Anniversary Edition (December 15, 2016)
• Banking on the Margins or the Core of Human Flourishing?, Public Discourse (December 7, 2016)
• The Double Mommy Trap, Public Discourse (October 31, 2016)
• Texas Lawmen and the Lawless Court, Public Discourse (July 7, 2016)
• The Right to Be Differently Excellent, Public Discourse (May 5, 2016)
• Federal Courts, Government Agencies, and Bathroom Policy, Public Discourse (April 25, 2016)
• What’s Wrong With Rights?, Public Discourse (April 21, 2016)
• State Supreme Court: SCOTUS Majority is ‘Illegitimate Opinion’ (But Still Law?), New Boston Post (March 4, 2016)
• A Catechesis for the Tolerant, Public Discourse (February 9, 2016)
• Injuring the Health of the Legal Profession, New Boston Post (January 21, 2016)
• ISIS’s War on Civilization is Motivated by Law, New Boston Post (November 17, 2015)
• Assisted Suicide and the Corruption of Lawyers, New Boston Post (November 16, 2015)
• Marriage is For Children, Respectful Conversation (November 13, 2015)
• Birth Certificates, Fatherhood, and Same-Sex Marriage: Sotomayor v. Sotomayor, Public Discourse (November 5, 2015)
• With Robert McFarland, Did the Supreme Court Take Tennessee Courts Out of the Marriage Business?, Public Discourse (September 24, 2015)
• The Ambiguous Quest for Marriage Equality, Public Discourse (June 25, 2015)
• There is a Fundamental Right to Marriage, and We Must Preserve It, Public Discourse (June 16, 2015)
• Modest Conscience Protections in Louisiana Elicit Hysteria, Public Discourse (May 13, 2015)
• Religious Freedom and Sexual Identity: A Proposal for Peace, Public Discourse (May 8, 2015)
• The Common Law: Ginsburg Gets It Wrong, Library of Law and Liberty (May 4, 2015)
• Yes, Tyranny is a Fitting Word, Public Discourse (March 31, 2015)
• Judicial Tyranny UnMoored, Public Discourse (March 30, 2015)
• Judging What?: A Review of Robert Katzmann, Judging Statutes, Library of Law and Liberty (March 2015)
• The Hidden Costs of Legalized Suicide, Public Discourse (October 27, 2014)
• C.S. Lewis’ Meditation in a Toolshed and the Inviolability of Life, Canon & Culture (August 27, 2014)
• Gordon College and Pluralism in Higher Education, Public Discourse (July 30, 2014)
• How to Support Religious Liberty, Canon & Culture (July 18, 2014)
• Have Christian Colleges Lost Their Way?, Canon & Culture (June 9, 2014)
• What’s at Stake at the Bakery: How Property Rights Got Sexy, Public Discourse (March 4, 2014)
• Who’s Afraid of Legislative Intent?: A Review of RICHARD EKINS, THE NATURE OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT, Library of Law and Liberty (February 2014)
• No Interest in Fathers, Public Discourse (January 14, 2014)
• What Will Become of Equal Protection for Women?, Public Discourse (September 13, 2013)
• Principled Entitlement Reform: Private Ordering Needs Room to Grow, Public Discourse (August 8, 2013)
• A Moral Foundation for Entitlement Reform, Public Discourse (August 7, 2013)
• Euphemisms: The Modus Operandi of Death Rights Advocates, Public Discourse (June 20, 2013)
• Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the Ban Myth, Public Discourse (April 2, 2013)
• Property Viewed From the Inside, Public Discourse (March 22, 2013)
• Property and the Regulatory State at the Supreme Court, Public Discourse (March 21, 2013)
• With Andrew Beckwith, Sky Fall: Gender Ideology Comes to the Schoolhouse, Public Discourse (March 1, 2013)
• At and Along: A Review of THE LAW AND ETHICS OF MEDICINE by John Keown, 34 ADELAIDE LAW REVIEW 211 (2013)
• Review of WHAT IS MARRIAGE: MAN AND WOMAN—A DEFENSE, Journal of Faith and the Academy (2013)
• Law’s Logic at the End of Life, Public Discourse (January 15, 2013)
• At and Along: A Review of The Law and Ethics of Medicine by John Keown, 34 Adelaide Law Review 211 (2013)
• Economic Justice and the Internal Point of View, 17 Journal Jurisprudence 11 (2013)
• Moral Neutrality, Marriage, and the Supreme Court, Public Discourse (December 10, 2012)
• The Right to Do Good, Public Discourse (October 16, 2012)
• Judging Human Worth, Public Discourse (May 9, 2012)
• Rediscovering Property, Public Discourse (April 19, 2012)
• Marriage Decisions and the Importance of Judicial Reason, Public Discourse (March 5, 2012)
• Social Justice, Institutions, and Communities, Public Discourse (January 27, 2012)
• Purpose, Palliative Care, and Respect for Human Life, Public Discourse (January 11, 2012)
• Private Property and Human Flourishing, Public Discourse (October 25, 2011)
• Assisted Suicide: The Forgotten Front in the Fight for Life, Public Discourse (September 14, 2011)
• Review of JEAN PORTER, MINISTERS OF THE LAW, 4 Journal of Faith and the Academy 68 (2011)
• The (Contingent) Value of Autonomy and the Reflexivity of (Some) Basic Goods, 5 Journal Jurisprudence 11 (2010)
• The Law as Bard: Extolling a Culture’s Virtues, Exposing Its Vices, and Telling Its Story, 1 Journal Jurisprudence 11 (2008)
• The Groningen Protocol: Legalized Infanticide in the Netherlands and Why it Should Not be Adopted in the United States, 10 Michigan State Journal of Medicine & Law 557 (2006)

Representative Presentations

• Classical Legal Solutions to the Problems of the Information Age, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary (December 1, 2022)
• The Jury in the Age of Public Rights, LSU Law Center and Eric Voegelin Institute, Louisiana State University (January 22, 2019)
• Jus Gentium as the Solution to Transnational Phobias, Sallux ECPM Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (December 2, 2018)
• Fundamental Rights, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Munich, Germany (November 29, 2018)
• Trespass and Intention, Boston University School of Law, Property Works in Progress workshop (October 19, 2018)
• IP as a Property Doctrine, Center for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition, National Law University, Delhi India (March 22, 2018)
• Self-governance and Intellectual Property, Conference on Voluntary Governance, Michigan State University, James Madison College (December 2, 2017)
• Property and Charity, Queen’s University, Ontario, Visiting Speaker Series lecture (March 2, 2015)
• What Marriage (Still) Is, Suffolk University School of Law, American Constitution Society, Suffolk Law School chapter (October 16, 2012)
• RLUIPA and Federalism, panelist at Association for Law, Property and Society annual conference (March 4, 2011)

Representative Appearances in New Media

• Interviewed in Gérard Mordillat documentary, Le Monde et sa Propriété, ARTE TV Europe (2022)
• With Becky Dummermuth, A Test in Virginia of the Right to Remain Silent, Washington Post (June 10, 2022)
• Justice Thomas at 30: Principle Over Precedent, National Review Online (October 22, 2021)
• With Ryan T. Anderson, Clarence Thomas is Right About Big Tech, National Review Online (April 19, 2021)
• Executive Power in a Pandemic, The Birmingham News (April 24, 2020)
• Interviewed on Fox & Friends, Fox News Channel, to discuss educating young law students (November 29, 2017)
• Neil Gorsuch, The Scholar and the Man, Washington Times (March 28, 2017)