Steven Douglas Smith

University of San Diego School of Law

Warren Distinguished Professor of Law

5998 Alcala Park

San Diego, CA 92110-2492

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1.

The Hollowness of the Harm Principle

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Sep 2004
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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harm principle, liberalism, John Stuart Mill, legal argument

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The Paralyzing Paradox of Religious Neutrality

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-060
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Aug 2011
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religion, First Amendment, constitutional law

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Freedom of Religion or Freedom of the Church?

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-061
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Aug 2011
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religion, constitutional law, freedom of the church, first amendment

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How to Remove a Federal Judge

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 116, 2006, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-41
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 08 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2016
Saikrishna Prakash and Steven Douglas Smith
University of Virginia School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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good behavior, impeachment, Act of Settlement, judges, Congress

5.

Recovering (from) Enlightenment?

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 25 Sep 2003
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitutional law, U.S. Constitution

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Jurisprudence: Beyond Extinction?

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-108
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 Aug 2007
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy, Secularism, Morality, Natural law, Legal Postivism

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That Old-Time Originalism

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 08-028
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Jun 2008
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitutional law, jurisprudence, originalism, constitutional theory

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The New and Old Originalism: A Discussion

"Meanings or Decisions? Getting Originalism Back on Track." Library of Law and Liberty. December 2, 2014. , San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 15-178, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 718, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 510
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2020
Steven Douglas Smith, Michael B. Rappaport, William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs
University of San Diego School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, University of Chicago - Law School and Harvard Law School
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originalism, new originalism, old originalism,constitutional law, constitutional interpretation, interpretation, jurisprudence

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Discourse in the Dusk: The Twilight of Religious Freedom

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 122, p. 1869, 2009, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 09-016
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Jul 2009
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, separation of church and state

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How Secularists Helped Knock Down the Wall of Separation between Church and State

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-124
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 12 Nov 2007
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religious freedom, secularism, separation of church and state, freedom of conscience

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Interrogating Thomas More: The Conundrums of Conscience

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Sep 2003
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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legal ethics, conscience

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Justice Douglas, Justice O'Connor, and George Orwell: Does the Constitution Compel Us to Disown Our Past?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 May 2005
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitution, freedom of religion, first amendment, no endorsement prohibition

13.

The Plight of the Secular Paradigm

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-062
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 18 Aug 2011
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religion, authority, secularism, constitutional law, legal history

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The Pluralist Predicament: Contemporary Theorizing in the Law of Religious Freedom

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Jun 2004
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religious freedom, religion, freedom, nonestablishment, separation of church and state, free exercise

15.

The Tenuous Case for Conscience

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Sep 2004
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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freedom of religion, freedom of speech, first amendment, constitution, metaethics

16.

Toleration and Liberal Commitments

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Jun 2004
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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toleration, dissent, liberal

17.

The Jurisprudence of Denigration

UC Davis Law Review, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-143
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2014
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitutional law, marriage, law and philosophy, public discourse

18.

Hollow Men: Law and the Declension of Belief

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Feb 2005
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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belief systems, apologetics, truth, contemporary jurisprudence, declensionist response, nature of law, Christian legal thinkers

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Our Agnostic Constitution

New York University Law Review, Vol. 83, 2008, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-104
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Aug 2007
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Religion, Secularism

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Hart's Onion: The Peeling Away of Legal Authority

Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-68
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 08 Oct 2006
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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authority, obligation, jurisprudence, legal theory, divine

21.

Is God Irrelevant?

Boston University Law Review, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-142
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Feb 2014
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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jurisprudence, religion, religious freedom

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Nonestablishment Under God? The Nonsectarian Principle

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Jun 2004
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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nonestablishment, nonsectarian, public secularism, First Amendment, religious freedom

23.

The (Always) Imminent Death of the Law

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 43, 2006, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-58
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Sep 2006
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy

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Die and Let Live? the Asymmetry of Accommodation

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-162
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Aug 2014
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religious freedom, culture wars, accommodation, civil rights, contraception, abortion, marriage

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Equality, Religion, and Nihilism

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-169
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Oct 2014
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religious freedom, culture wars, marriage, equality

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The Establishment Clause and the 'Problem of the Church'

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 09-024
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Aug 2009
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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freedom of religion, constitutional law, separation of church and state

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The Heavenly City of the Twentieth-Century Philosophers

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-45
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 May 2006
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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morality, enlightenment

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Debate: The Contraception Mandate and Religious Freedom

University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, Vol. 161, No. 261, 2013, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 13-125
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Jun 2013
Caroline Mala Corbin and Steven Douglas Smith
University of Miami School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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religious liberty, free exercise, RFRA, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, health care, health insurance, contraception, contraception mandate, abortion, reproductive rights, corporations, First Amendment

29.

The Tortuous Course of Religious Freedom

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 15-201
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Dec 2015
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religion, religious freedom, history, constitutional law, secularism, paganism, communitarianism, catholicism

30.

How is America 'Divided by God'?

Mississippi College Law Review, Vol. 27, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-111
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 Aug 2007
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Religion, Belief, Culture Wars, Frist Amendment

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Believing Persons, Personal Believings: The Neglected Center of the First Amendment

Number of pages: 128 Posted: 20 Nov 2002
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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The Phases and Functions of Freedom of Conscience

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 10-024
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 May 2010
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitutional law, international law, human rights, religion, freedom of conscience

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The Pagan City, the Christian City, and the Secular City

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-290
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Jun 2017
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Christianity, Paganism, Secularism, Modern Paganism, Immanent Religiosity, Transcendent Religiosity

34.

Barnette's Big Blunder

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 18 Jun 2003
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Constitutional Law, First Amendment

35.

Separation as a Tradition

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 13 Nov 2002
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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36.

Legal Scholarship as Resistance to Science

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 24 May 2005
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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legal education, legal scholarship, law and legal theory

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The Jurisdictional Establishment Clause: A Reappraisal

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-57
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 13 Sep 2006
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Establishment Clause, Freedom of Religion, Separation of Church and State, Constitutional Law, Jurisdiciton, First Amendment, Originalism

38.

Culture Wars as Pagan Counterrevolution

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-293
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Jun 2017
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Modern Paganism, Culture Wars, Christian Revolution, Pagan Counterrevolution, Public Religious Symbols, Legally Implemented Norms of Sexuality, Religious Freedom

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Constitutional Divide: The Transformative Significance of the School Prayer Decisions

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 10-038
Number of pages: 106 Posted: 14 Oct 2010
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Freedom of Religion, Separation of Church and State, Constittutional Law, Culture

40.

Wisdom versus 'Reason' in Law

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 15-181
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Feb 2015
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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jurisprudence, reason, common law, constitutional law, same sex

41.

Originalism and the (Merely) Human Constitution

Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 10-004
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Jan 2010
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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originalism, constitutional interpretation

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Taxes, Conscience, and the Constitution

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-12
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 19 Oct 2005
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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conscience, taxes, religion

43.

Why School Prayer Matters

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 20-447
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 25 Apr 2020
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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School Prayer, Engel v.Vitale,

44.

Why is Government Speech Problematic? The Unnecessary Problem, the Unnoticed Problem, and the Big Problem

Denver University Law Review, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 10-014
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Mar 2010
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitutional law, freedom of speech, first amendment

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Religious Symbols and Secular Government

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 12-096
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 Sep 2012
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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First Amendment, Establishment Clause, Religion, Constitutional Law

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Religious Freedom and its Enemies, or Why the Smith Decision may be a Greater Loss Now than it was Then

Cardozo Law Review, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 10-037
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Oct 2010
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Freedom of Religion, Constitutional Law, First Amendment

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Against 'Civil Rights' Simplism: How Not to Accommodate Competing Legal Commitments

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-294
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Jun 2017
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religion, religious freedom, civil rights, legal conflict, freedom of expression

48.

Coming Home? The Imminent Immanent City

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-291
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Jun 2017
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Modern paganism, Christianity, Pagan city, Christian city, Pagan

49.

Science and the Person: A Complacent Reflection

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 12-100
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Nov 2012
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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science, neuroscience, agency, personhood, jurisprudence, philosophy of law

50.

The Iceberg of Religious Freedom: Subsurface Levels of Nonestablishment Discourse

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Nov 2004
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religious freedom, freedom of religion, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, US Constitution

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The 'Jurisdictional' Conception of Church Autonomy

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-177
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Dec 2014
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitutional law, jurisdiction, religious freedom, social contract, freedom of the church

52.

Constitutional Agnosticism, Religious Pluralism, and the Problem of Community

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 08-020
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitutional agnosticism, religious pluralism, problem of community

53.

The Supreme Court as (Anti-)Magisterium

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-25
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Nov 2005
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitution, supreme court, religion

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Constitution Day: 'The Image of Liberty'

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 15-196
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 01 Oct 2015
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitutional law, constitutional interpretation, same-sex marriage, separation of powers, legal history

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The Case of the Exemption Claimants: Religion, Conscience, and Identity

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-345
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Apr 2018
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Constitutional law, Case of the Exemption Claimants, Religious Freedom Clause, priest-penitent privilege, Conscience, Identity, self-conception

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An Open Letter to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-367
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 13 Nov 2018
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Dissenting opinion

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Persons Pursuing Goods

Legal Theory, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-112
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 Aug 2007
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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natural law, goods, personhood, friendship, legal authority, obligation

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Educating for Liberalism

UC Davis Law Review, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 08-057
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Aug 2008
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religion, constitutional law, education, first amendment, schools

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Persons All the Way Up

Villanova Law Review, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 10-003
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Jan 2010
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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jurisprudence, legal philosophy, religion, authority

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Nonestablishment, Standing, and the Soft Constitution

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 10-045
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 24 Nov 2010
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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constitutional law, first amendment, separation of church and state, federal courts, freedom of religion, standing

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The Constitution and the Goods of Religion

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 10-059
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2011
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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First Amendment, Establishment Clause, Religion, Constitutional Law, Liberalism

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Obergefell and the Reconstituting of America

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-364
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Sep 2018
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Obergefell, Obergefell v. Hodges, 14th Amendment, Public Symbols

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Situating Ourselves in History

Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 41, 2014, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 15-182
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 27 Feb 2015
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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religion, religious freedom, history, constitutonal law

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West and East: the Continuity of Persons

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-141
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Feb 2014
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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jurisprudence, psychology, comparative law

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De-Moralized: Glucksberg in the Malaise

Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-109
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 31 Aug 2007
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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morality, constitutional law, assisted suicide, moral reasoning

66.

Naturalism and the Trajectory of History

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 16-229
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Nov 2016
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Religion, Religious Freedom, History, Christianity, Culture Wars

67.

Does Religious Freedom Have a Future?

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 21-026
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Sep 2021
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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In Search of Conservatism

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 19-378 (2019)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Feb 2019
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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conservatism, constitutional jurisprudence

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'Fixed Star' or Twin Star? the Ambiguity of Barnette

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-363
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Sep 2018
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, pluralism, neutrality interpretation, integrity interpretation

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Reply: (Mis)Understanding Good-Behavior Tenure

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 116, No. 159, 2006
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 23 Feb 2010
Saikrishna Prakash and Steven Douglas Smith
University of Virginia School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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good behavior, judicial independence, impeachment, holism, Redish, tenure

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One Step Enough

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 19-414 (2019)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Sep 2019
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Christians, antidiscrimination, Robert Cochran

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Alexander as Anarchist

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-292
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Jun 2017
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Larry Alexander, Legal Interpretation, Hermeneutics, Anarchy

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Michael Perry, Prophet of Progressive Collapse

Emory Law Journal, Forthcoming, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 21-027
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2021
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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Objective Animus?

Florida Law Review Forum , San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 20-452
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 30 May 2020
Steven Douglas Smith
University of San Diego School of Law
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objective animus, supreme court, rhetoric of denigration, RHETORIC OF DENIGRATION