Michael W. Mcconnell

Publications

• The Trump Disqualification Case: The Halley’s Comet Of Constitutional Law
  2024 SUP. CT. REV. (2024) · Supreme Court Review · 2024
• Impeachment and Trial After Officials Leave Office
  87 MO. L. REV. (2022) · Missouri Law Review · 2022
• Statement by Michael McConnell to Stanford Law School Community May 29, 2020
  97 WASH. U. L. REV. (2020) · Washington University Law Review · 2020
• Keynote Address: Freedom of Association: Campus Religious Groups
  97 WASH. U. L. REV. 1641 (2020) · Washington University Law Review · 2020

• What Are The Judiciary’s Politics?
  45 PEPP. L. REV. 455 (2018) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2018
• The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment: Where is the Supreme Court Heading?
  32 CATH. LAWYER (2017) · The Catholic Lawyer · 2017
• A Personal Reflection on Judge Neil M. Gorsuch from a Former Colleague
  69 STAN. L. REV. (2017) · Stanford Law Review · 2017
• Reconsidering Citizens United as a Press Clause Case
  123 YALE L.J. 412 (2013) · Yale Law Journal · 2013
• Why Protect Religious Freedom?
  123 YALE L.J. 770 (2013) · Yale Law Journal · 2013
• Is There Still a Catholic Question in America - Reflections on John F. Kennedy's Speech to the Houston Ministerial Association
  86 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1635 (2011) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2011
• Moderation and Coherence in American Democracy
  99 CAL. L. REV. 373 (2011) · California Law Review · 2011
• Non-State Governance
  2010 UTAH L. REV. (2010) · Utah Law Review · 2010

• The Second Conversation with Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.: Lawyering and the Craft of Judicial Opinion Writing
  37 PEPP. L. REV. (2009) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2009
• Justice Brennan's Accommodating Approach toward Religion
  95 CAL. L. REV. 2187 (2007) · California Law Review · 2007
• The Booker Mess
  83 DENV. L. REV. 665 (2006) · Denver Law Review · 2006
• The Ethics of Etiquette: An Introduction to a Symposium in Honor of Dean Lee E. Teitelbaum
  2006 UTAH L. REV. (2006) · Utah Law Review · 2006
• Establishment and Disestablishment at the Founding, Part I: Establishment of Religion
  44 WM. & MARY L. REV. 2105 (2003) · William & Mary Law Review · 2003
• Religious Freedom, Separation of Powers, and the Reversal of Roles
  2001 BYU L. REV. 611 (2001) · BYU Law Review · 2001
• The Problem of Singling out Religion
  50 DEPAUL L. REV. 1 (2001) · DePaul Law Review · 2001
• State Action and the Supreme Court's Emerging Consensus on the Line between Establishment and Private Religious Expression
  28 PEPP. L. REV. (2001) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2001
• Two-and-a-Half Cheers for Bush v Gore
  68 U. CHI. L. REV. (2001) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2001
• The Supreme Court's Earliest Church-State Cases: Windows on Religious-Cultural-Political Conflict in the Early Republic
  37 TULSA L. REV. 7 (2001) · Tulsa Law Review · 2001
• Why Is Religious Liberty the "First Freedom"?
  21 CARDOZO L. REV. 1243 (2000) · Cardozo Law Review · 2000
• The New Establishmentarianism
  75 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 453 (2000) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2000

• Five Reasons to Reject the Claim That Religious Arguments Should Be Excluded from Democratic Deliberation
  1999 UTAH L. REV. (1999) · Utah Law Review · 1999
• Freedom From Persecution or Protection of the Rights of Conscience?: A Critique of Justice Scalia's Historical Arguments in City of Boerne v. Flores
  39 WM. & MARY L. REV. 819 (1998) · William & Mary Law Review · 1998
• The Importance of Humility in Judicial Review: A Comment on Ronald Dworkin's Moral Reading of the Constitution
  65 FORDHAM L. REV. 1269 (1997) · Fordham Law Review · 1997
• The Right to Die and the Jurisprudence of Tradition
  1997 UTAH L. REV. (1997) · Utah Law Review · 1997
• Segregation and the Original Understanding: A Reply to Professor Maltz
  13 CONST. COMMENT. 233 (1996) · Constitutional Commentary · 1996
• Establishment and Toleration in Edmund Burke's "Constitution of Freedom"
  1995 SUP. CT. REV. (1995) · Supreme Court Review · 1995
• Reply: The Originalist Justification for Brown: A Reply to Professor Klarman
  81 VA. L. REV. 1937 (1995) · Virginia Law Review · 1995
• Originalism and the Desegregation Decisions
  81 VA. L. REV. 947 (1995) · Virginia Law Review · 1995
• Religion and the Search for a Principled Middle Ground on Abortion
  92 MICH. L. REV. 1893 (1994) · Michigan Law Review · 1994
• The Forgotten Constitutional Moment
  11 CONST. COMMENT. 115 (1994) · Constitutional Commentary · 1994
• God Is Dead and We Have Killed Him!: Freedom of Religion in the Post-modem Age
  1993 BYU L. REV. 163 (1993) · BYU Law Review · 1993
• Christ, Culture, and Courts: A Niebuhrian Examination of First Amendment Jurisprudence
  42 DEPAUL L. REV. 191 (1993) · DePaul Law Review · 1993
• When Cities Go Broke: A Conceptual Introduction to Municipal Bankruptcy
  60 U. CHI. L. REV. (1993) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1993
• The Fourteenth Amendment: A Second American Revolution or the Logical Culmination of the Tradition
  25 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 1159 (1992) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1992
• Religious Freedom at a Crossroads
  59 U. CHI. L. REV. (1992) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1992
• America's First "Hate Speech" Regulation
  9 CONST. COMMENT. 17 (1992) · Constitutional Commentary · 1992
• How Not to Promote Serious Deliberation about Abortion (reviewing <i>Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes</i> by Laurence H. Tribe)
  58 U. CHI. L. REV. (1991) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1991
• A Response to Professor Marshall
  58 U. CHI. L. REV. (1991) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1991
• Multiculturalism, Majoritarianism, and Educational Choice: What Does Our Constitutional Tradition Have to Say?
  1991 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (1991) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 1991
• Academic Freedom in Religous Colleges and Universities
  53 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 303 (1990) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 1990
• Free Exercise Revisionism and the Smith Decision
  57 U. CHI. L. REV. (1990) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1990

• Unconstitutional Conditions: Unrecognized Implications for the Establishment Clause
  26 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 255 (1989) · San Diego Law Review · 1989
• An Economic Approach to Issues of Religious Freedom
  56 U. CHI. L. REV. (1989) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1989
• Book Review of The First Freedoms: Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment
  6 CONST. COMMENT. 123 (1989) · Constitutional Commentary · 1989
• The Role of Democratic Politics in Transforming Moral Convictions into Law
  98 YALE L.J. 1501 (1989) · Yale Law Journal · 1989
• On Reading the Constitution
  73 CORNELL L. REV. 359 (1988) · Cornell Law Review · 1988
• The Rule of Law and the Role of the Solicitor General
  21 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 1105 (1988) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1988
• Contract Rights and Property Rights: A Case Study in the Relationship between Individual Liberties and Constitutional Structure
  76 CAL. L. REV. 267 (1988) · California Law Review · 1988
• The First Amendment Jurisprudence of Judge Robert H. Bork
  9 CARDOZO L. REV. 63 (1987) · Cardozo Law Review · 1987
• Federalism: Evaluating the Founders' Design (reviewing <i>Federalism: The Founders' Design</i> by Raoul Berger)
  54 U. CHI. L. REV. (1987) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1987
• Why Hold Elections? - Using Consent Decrees to Insulate Policies from Political Change
  1987 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (1987) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 1987
• Review Article
  85 MICH. L. REV. 1035 (1987) · Michigan Law Review · 1987
• Political and Religious Disestablishment
  1986 BYU L. REV. 405 (1986) · BYU Law Review · 1986
• Coercion: The Lost Element of Establishment
  27 WM. & MARY L. REV. 933 (1986) · William & Mary Law Review · 1986
• Accommodation of Religion
  1985 SUP. CT. REV. (1985) · Supreme Court Review · 1985

• The Appealability of Orders Denying Motions for Disqualification of Counsel in the Federal Courts
  45 U. CHI. L. REV. (1978) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1978