Alan E. Brownstein

Publications

• Attempting to Protect the Liberty and Equality of Minority Faiths and Nonreligious Individuals When the Surpreme Court Will Not Do So
  100 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 777 (2025) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2025
• Locating Free-Exercise Most-Favored-Nation-Status (MFN) Reasoning in Constitutional Context
  54 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 777 (2023) · Loyola University Chicago Law Journal · 2023

• Attempting to Engage in Socially Coherent Dialogue About Religious Liberty and Equality
  31 J. CIV. RTS. & ECON. DEV. (2018) · Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development · 2018
• A Close-Up, Modern Look at First Amendment Academic Freedom Rights of Public College Students and Faculty
  101 MINN. L. REV. 1943 (2017) · Minnesota Law Review · 2017
• Constitutional Myopia: The Supreme Court's Blindness to Religious Liberty and Religious Equality Values in Town of Greece v. Galloway
  48 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 371 (2015) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 2015
• Continuing the Constitutional Dialogue: A Discussion on Justice Stevens's Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Jurisprudence
  106 NW. U. L. REV. 605 (2015) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2015
• The Voracious First Amendment: Alvarez and Knox in the context of 2012 and Beyond
  46 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 491 (2013) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 2013
• The Religion Clauses as Mutually Reinforcing Mandates: Why the Arguments for Rigorously Enforcing the Free Exercise Clause and Establishment Clause Are Stronger When Both Clauses Are Taken Seriously
  32 CARDOZO L. REV. 1701 (2011) · Cardozo Law Review · 2011
• Reviewing Associational Freedom Claims in a Limited Public Forum: An Extension of the Distinction between Debate-Dampening and Debate-Distorting State Action
  38 UC L. CONST. Q. 505 (2011) · UC Law Constitutional Quarterly · 2011

• The Constitutionalization of Self-Defense in Tort and Criminal Law, Grammatically-Correct Originalism, and Other Second Amendment Musings
  60 UC L.J. 1205 (2009) · UC Law Journal · 2009
• Taking Free Exercise Rights Seriously
  57 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 55 (2006) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2006
• Why the Case for Amending the U.S. Constitution to Prohibit or Regulate Gay Marriage is Not Proved
  32 UC L. CONST. Q. 637 (2004) · UC Law Constitutional Quarterly · 2004

• Interpreting the Religion Clauses in Terms of Liberty, Equality, and Free Speech Values - A Critical Analysis of Neutrality Theory and Charitable Choice
  13 NOTRE DAME J. L. ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 243 (1999) · Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy · 1999
• Alternative Maps for Navigating the First Amendment Maze
  16 CONST. COMMENT. 101 (1999) · Constitutional Commentary · 1999
• Right Not to be John Garvey
  83 CORNELL L. REV. 767 (1998) · Cornell Law Review · 1998
• Constitutional Wish Granting and the Property Rights Genie
  13 CONST. COMMENT. 7 (1996) · Constitutional Commentary · 1996
• How Rights Are Infringed: The Role of Undue Burden Analysis in Constitutional Doctrine
  45 UC L.J. 867 (1994) · UC Law Journal · 1994
• Hate Speech and Harassment: The Constitutionality of Campus Codes that Prohibit Racial Insults
  3 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 179 (1994) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 1994
• Regulating Hate Speech at Public Universities: Are First Amendment Values Functionally Incompatible with Equal Protection Principles?
  39 BUFF. L. REV. 1 (1991) · Buffalo Law Review · 1991