James David Nelson

University of Houston Law Center

4170 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Houston, TX 77004

United States

  • University of Houston Law Center

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1.

The Untenable Case for Keeping Investors in the Dark

Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 10, pp. 1-48, 2020, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 1025
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 18 May 2020
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Robert J. Jackson Jr., James David Nelson and Roberto Tallarita
Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, University of Houston Law Center and Harvard Law School
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political spending, SEC, disclosure, transparency

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Conscience, Incorporated

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2013, No.5
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 10 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 10 May 2014
James David Nelson
University of Houston Law Center
Downloads 546 (110,277)
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conscience, corporations, corporate personhood, free exercise, religion, institutions, contraception

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Government's Religious Hospitals

109 Va. L. Rev. 61 (2023), U of Texas Law, Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 12 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2023
Elizabeth Sepper and James David Nelson
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and University of Houston Law Center
Downloads 357 (181,455)

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hospitals, church-state, establishment, religion, privatization, healthcare

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Disestablishment at Work

134 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2025)
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 13 May 2024
James David Nelson
University of Houston Law Center
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religion, work, accommodation

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The Religious Conversion of Corporate Social Responsibility

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 71, No. 2, 2021, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2022
Elizabeth Sepper and James David Nelson
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and University of Houston Law Center
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corporate social responsibility, religious liberty, Hobby Lobby, religious exemptions, corporate purpose

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Second Order Decisions in Rights Conflicts

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2022-51, U of Houston Law Center No. 2022-A-13, Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2022
James David Nelson and Micah Schwartzman
University of Houston Law Center and University of Virginia School of Law
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second order decisions, hard cases, legal indeterminacy, incompleteness, conflict avoidance

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Incarceration, Accommodation, and Strict Scrutiny

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 8, 2009
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 14 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2010
James David Nelson
University of Houston Law Center
Downloads 162 (395,515)

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Religion, Accommodation, Prison, RLUIPA, Strict Scrutiny

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Corporate Disestablishment

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 105, No. 3, 2019
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 Aug 2019
James David Nelson
University of Houston Law Center
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Expressive Association at Work

124 Michigan Law Review -- (forthcoming 2026), U of Texas Law, Legal Studies Research Paper, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-19, U of Houston Law Center Forthcoming
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 13 Mar 2025 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2025
Elizabeth Sepper, James David Nelson and Charlotte Garden
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, University of Houston Law Center and University of Minnesota Law School
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First Amendment, Expressive association, Work, Employment discrimination, Abortion, LGBTQ rights

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Adolf Berle's Corporate Conscience

45 Seattle University Law Review 97 (2021), U of Texas Law, Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Oct 2022
Elizabeth Sepper and James David Nelson
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and University of Houston Law Center
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corporate conscience, religion, corporations, Berle

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Religion Law and Political Economy

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 5, 2023, U of Texas Law, Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Jul 2023
Elizabeth Sepper and James David Nelson
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and University of Houston Law Center
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law and religion, church-state, religious liberty, law and political economy, LPE

12.

The Freedom of Business Association

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, No. 2, 2015
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Apr 2018
James David Nelson
University of Houston Law Center
Downloads 80 (662,711)
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Corporations, Unions, and the Illusion of Symmetry

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 8, 2016
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 May 2018
James David Nelson
University of Houston Law Center
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