I have a short opinion piece up at the SCOTUSblog site, about the Supreme Court's recent decision in Mahmoud.  It has the (admittedly provocative) title, "Is Religious Freedom

Possible in State Schools."  (It's kind of a follow-up on a law-review essay I did, years ago, on the Morse v. [...]

The Program on Church, State & Society, at Notre Dame Law School, sponsors an annual writing competition for law students and recent graduates.  It's been edifying, over the

years, reading the submissions.  Here's a story about this year's winners! [...]

The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America (“Catholic Law”) may seek to fill one or more faculty positions to begin in Fall 2026. We are looking for

candidates for entry-level or lateral positions, tenure-track or contract, in a variety of subjects, including, but not limited to, Corporate and Securities Law, [...]

I am including below the text of our announcement for our symposium next spring, which will consider the theme of law and virtue. Elizabeth Kirk and I are thrilled that Professor

Mary Ann Glendon will keynote the conference. Here I want to emphasize that we are especially looking for early career scholars (with or without academic position!) [...]

I've posted this new paper on SSRN. Abstract: In recent years, religious-freedom issues have become caught up in the nation’s cycle of political and social polarization.

I have argued, on my own and in concert with others, that the only way forward is to protect key interests of both conflicting sides in our major religious-freedom [...]

Here is a short piece I did, for the Law & Liberty website, on the recent non-decision in the St. Isidore case.  It's called "Educational Pluralism Delayed".  Here is

a bit: The longstanding American constitutional experiment in religious freedom is not, and never has been, anti-religious. [...]

Submissions and nominations of articles are being accepted for the sixteenth annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility.  To

honor Fred's memory, the committee will select from among articles in the field of Professional Responsibility with a publication date of 2025.  The prize will be [...]

Thank you, Rick, for highlighting my forthcoming article, "Screaming Into the System: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Flannery O'Connor, Violence, and the Criminal Law."

   I thought MOJ readers might appreciate a little context on my journey to write this rather unusual article for a law professor.  As many MOJ readers are aware, [...]

We had the honor, last Fall, of hosting Prof. Steven Smith (University of San Diego) for the annual Rice-Hasson Lecture at Notre Dame Law School.  His talk has been published

in the (excellent) Church Life Journal, and you can read it here.  It's called "The American Proposition:  Whose Truths? Which Strategies" and is, obviously, inspired [...]

Our own Prof. Mary Leary (CUA) has posted a fascinating paper, "Screaming Into the System: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Flannery O'Connor, Violence, and the Criminal

Law."  Here is the abstract: This year marks the 100th birthday of one of America’s most influential writers in history – Flannery O’Connor.  Much has been [...]