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Richard W. Garnett

Notre Dame Law School

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Notre Dame, IN 46556-0780

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1.

The Freedom of the Church

Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Vol. 4, 2007, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 06-12
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Jul 2006
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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First Amendment, Religious freedom, church and state, church autonomy, Establishment Clause, expressive association, John Courtney Murray

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Religion, Division, and the First Amendment

Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 05-23, Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 94, 2006
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 30 Nov 2005
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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First Amendment, Establishment Clause, religious freedom, division, divisiveness, public life, religious arguments, constitutional law, church and state

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Changing Minds: Proselytism, Religious Freedom, and the First Amendment

University of St. Thomas Law Journal, 2005
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 May 2005
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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free speech, proselytism, First Amendment, human rights, Pope John Paul II

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The Theology of the Blaine Amendments

First Amendment Law Review, Vol. 1
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Dec 2003
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Religion Clauses, Blaine Amendments, civic education, anti-Catholicism, school choice, vouchers, federalism

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Christian Witness, Moral Anthropology, and the Death Penalty

A CALL FOR RECKONING: RELITION AND THE DEATH PENALTY, Erik C. Owens, et al., eds., 2004
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Aug 2005
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
Downloads 324 (72,113)
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Death penalty, capital punishment, religion

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The New Federalism, the Spending Power, and Federal Criminal Law

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 89
Number of pages: 162 Posted: 12 Sep 2003
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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constitution, federalism, criminal law, Rehnquist Court

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Religious Freedom and the Nondiscrimination Norm

in MATTERS OF FAITH: Religious Experience and Legal Response (Austin Sarat, ed.) (Cambridge Univ. Press), Forthcoming , Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 12-65
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Jun 2012
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Religious freedom, First Amendment, ministerial exception, discrimination, equality, nondiscrimination, free exercise, establishment of religion, First Amendment

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Religious Freedom, Church-State Separation, and the Ministerial Exception

Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Vol. 106, p. 175, 2011, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 11-38, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-21
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2012
Richard W. Garnett, Thomas C. Berg, Kimberlee W. Colby and Carl H. Esbeck
Notre Dame Law School, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Missouri School of Law
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Establishment Clause, religious freedom, religious liberty, separation of church and state, First Amendment, ministerial exception, Hosanna-Tabor

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Taking Pierce Seriously: The Family, Religious Education, and Harm to Children

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 76, pp. 109-46, 2000
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 May 2005
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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parents' rights, religious education, Pierce

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A Quiet Faith? Taxes, Politics, and the Privatization of Religion

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 771, 2001, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 06-08
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 May 2006
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Religious Liberty, Church Autonomy, and the Structure of Freedom

CHRISTIANITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AN INTRODUCTION, John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander eds., pp. 226-238, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 10-10
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Apr 2010
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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religious liberty, church autonomy, human rights, First Amendment, free exercise, establishment of religion

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Religion and Group Rights: Are Churches (Just) Like the Boy Scouts?

St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary, Vol. 22, Fall 2007, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 07-45
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 Sep 2007
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Religious freedom, free exercise, establishment clause, church autonomy, expressive association, freedom of speech

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Assimilation, Toleration, and the State's Interest in the Development of Religious Doctrine

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2004
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Jul 2004
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Religion, first amendment, constitutional law, development of doctrine

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American Conversations with(in) Catholicism

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 102, p. 1191, May 2004
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 26 Jul 2005
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Religious freedom, democracy, Catholicism, establishment clause

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'The Freedom of the Church': (Towards) an Exposition, Translation, and Defense

Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, (2013) Forthcoming , Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1334
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 23 Jul 2013
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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First Amendment, religious freedom, religious liberty, church-state separation, ministerial exception, church autonomy, Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause, pluralism, Investiture Crisis, First Amendment institutions

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Chief Justice Rehnquist's Enduring, Democratic Constitution

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 395-399, 2006, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 06-02
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Mar 2006
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Rehnquist, Constitution, Democracy, Pluralism, Living Constitution, Brennan

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Can There Really Be 'Free Speech' in Public Schools?

Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 12, 2008, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 08-09
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 13 Mar 2008
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Morse, Frederick, Free Speech, Public Schools, Education, Viewpoint Discrimination, First Amendment

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Religious Accommodations And — And Among — Civil Rights: Separation, Toleration, and Accommodation

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 88, 2015, Forthcoming, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1503
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Feb 2015
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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First Amendment, religious freedom, religious liberty, religious accommodation, civil rights, free exercise

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Do Churches Matter? Towards an Institutional Understanding of the Religion Clauses

Villanova Law Review, Forthcoming, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 08-17
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Jun 2008
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Church and State, Religious Freedom, First Amendment, Religious Liberty, Free Exercise, Establishment Clause

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The Political (and Other) Safeguards of Religious Freedom

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 32, p. 1815, 2011 , Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 11-23
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Jul 2011
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Less is More: Justice Rehnquist, the Freedom of Speech, and Democracy

THE REHNQUIST LEGACY, Craig Bradley, ed., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 May 2005
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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free speech, Rehnquist, constitutional law, First Amendment

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'Things That Are Not Caesar’s': The Story of Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral

FIRST AMENDMENT STORIES, Richard W. Garnett, Andrew Koppelman, eds., Foundation Press 2011, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 11-27
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Jul 2011
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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First Amendment, religious freedom, religious liberty, Free Exercise, Establishment Clause, church autonomy

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'Modest Expectations'?: Civic Unity, Religious Pluralism, and Conscience

Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 06-17, Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 23, 2006
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Feldman, Hasson, Divided By God, division, religion, religious liberty

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Pluralism, Dialogue, and Freedom: Professor Robert Rodes and the Church-State Nexus

Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 22, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 07-32
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 May 2007
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Church & State, Rodes, church autonomy, religious freedom, First Amendment, free exercise, establishment of religion

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Accommodation, Establishment, and Freedom of Religion

67 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 39 (2014), Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1424
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 Jul 2014
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Establishment Clause, Hobby Lobby, First Amendment, religious freedom, secular purpose, HHS mandate

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Religious Freedom and (and in) Institutions

CHALLENGES TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, pp. 71-89, Gerard V. Bradley, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2012, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 12-57
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 24 Mar 2012
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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establishment clause, first amendment, religious freedom, religious liberty, separation of church and state

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Church, State, and the Practice of Love

Villanova Law Review, Vol. 52, p. 281, 2007, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 07-29
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 May 2007
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Church & State, Church autonomy, religious freedom, First Amendment, Benedict, free exercise, establishment of religion

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Taking Accommodation Seriously: Religious Freedom and the O Centro Case

CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW, pp. 257, 2005-2006, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 06-16
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Richard W. Garnett and Joshua D. Dunlap
Notre Dame Law School and Notre Dame Law School
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Sectarian Reflections on Lawyers' Ethics and Death Row Volunteers

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 77, pp. 795-830, 2002
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 May 2005
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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capital punishment, death penalty, death-row volunteers, legal ethics

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Debate: Judicial Activism and its Critics

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 155, p. 112, 2006, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 06-36
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Nov 2006
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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judicial activism, constitutional law, judicial humility, constitutional interpretation, originalism, judicial independence

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Jaycees Reconsidered: Judge Richard S. Arnold and the Freedom of Association

Arkansas Law Review, Vol. 59, 2005, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 05-22
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Oct 2005
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Association, Jaycees, antidiscrimination

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The Story of Henry Adams's Soul: Education and the Expression of Associations

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 85, p. 1841, 2000-2001
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 19 Aug 2005
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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First Amendment, Voluntary Associations, Freedom of Speech, Expressive Association, Education

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Neutrality and the Good of Religious Freedom: An Appreciative Response to Professor Koppelman

Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 39, p. 1001, 2012, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 12-63
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 May 2012
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Andrew Koppelman, Neutrality, First Amendment, Religious Freedom, Religious Liberty, Free Exercise, Establishment Clause, Judicial Review

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Judicial Enforcement of the Establishment Clause

Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 09-24
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 07 May 2009
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Greenawalt, religious liberty, religious freedom, Establishment Clause, judicial review

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Chief Justice Rehnquist, Religious Freedom, and the Constitution

Bradford P. Wilson, ed., The Constitutional Legacy of William H. Rehnquist (West Academic Press, 2015 Forthcoming), Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1501
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Jan 2015
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, William Rehnquist, Free Exercise, Establishment Clause, Religious Freedom, Religious Liberty

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The Worms and the Octopus: Religious Freedom, Pluralism, and Conservatism

Richard W. Garnett, "The Worms and the Octopus: Religious Freedom, Pluralism, and Conservatism," in NOMOS: American Conservatism, ed. Sanford V. Levinson, Joel Parker, and Melissa S. Williams (New York: NYU Press, Forthcoming)., Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1502
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2015
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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American political thought, conservatism, constitutional law, First Amendment, pluralism, religious freedom, religious liberty, separation of church and state

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'Excluding Religion': A Response

University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNUMBRA, Forthcoming, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 08-35
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 17 Nov 2008
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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First Amendment, Religion Clauses, Funding of Religion, Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause, Separation of Church and State, Religious Freedom

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William H. Rehnquist: A Life Lived Greatly, and Well

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, 2006, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 06-11
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Jun 2006
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Rehnquist, Supreme Court, federalism, judicial restraint, constitutional law

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Judicial Review, Local Values, and Pluralism

Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 08-37, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 32, 2008
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 Dec 2008
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Rehnquist, Supreme Court, judicial review, freedom of association, federalism, constitutional law, First Amendment

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The Many Paths to Neutrality

Richard W. Garnett & Andrew Koppelman, "Introduction: The Many Paths to Neutrality," in First Amendment Stories (Foundation Press 2012), Garnett & Koppelman, eds , Northwestern Public Law Research Paper , Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 12-78
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 26 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2012
Richard W. Garnett and Andrew Koppelman
Notre Dame Law School and Northwestern University School of Law
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First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, free exercise, establishment of religion, Constitutional Law, the Supreme Court, neutrality

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Standing, Spending, and Separation: How the No-Establishment Rule Does (and Does Not) Protect Conscience

Villanova Law Review, Vol. 54, p. 655, 2009, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 11-28
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Aug 2011
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Religious Freedom, Religious Liberty, Standing, James Madison, Martha Nussbaum, Conscience, Supreme Court, John Courtney Murray

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A Hands-Off Approach to Religious Doctrine: What Are We Talking About?

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 2, 2009, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1452
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Oct 2013
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Establishment Clause, Religious Freedom, First Amendment, Religious Questions, Free Exercise, Freedom of the Church

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Priests, Lawyers and Scholars Studies in Honor of Robert Araujo, S.J.

Richard W. Garnett, "Afterword," in S. Hendrianto, S.J., ed., Priests, Lawyers, and Scholars: Essays in Honor of Robert J. Araujo, S.J." (Franciscan Univ. Press 2017)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 07 Jun 2018
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Constitutional Law, Religious Freedom, Natural Law, International Law, Human Rights, Catholic Social Thought

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Freedom 'for' Religion: (Yet) Another View of the Cathedral

"Freedom 'for' Religion: (Yet) Another View of the Cathedral," in Brett G. Scharffs, Asher Maoz, and Ashley Isaacson Woolley, eds., Religious Freedom and the Law: Emerging Contexts for Freedom for and Freedom From Religion (Routledge 2019 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Jun 2018
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Religious Freedom, Religious Liberty, Constitutional Law, Vatican II, First Amendment, Free Exercise, Establishment Clause

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Religious Freedom and Recycled Tires: The Meaning and Implications of Trinity Lutheran

2016-17 Cato Supreme Court Review 105, Notre Dame Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1842
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Jun 2018
Richard W. Garnett and Jackson C. Blais
Notre Dame Law School and University of Notre Dame, Law School, Students
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First Amendment, Supreme Court, Free Exercise, Establishment Clause, Blaine Amendments, School Choice, Trinity Lutheran, Religious Freedom, Religious Liberty, Discrimination

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Justice Scalia, Religious Freedom, and the First Amendment

Heritage Foundation Special Report No. 186, Notre Dame Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1637
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2016
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Supreme Court of the United States, SCOTUS, Antonin Scalia, Religious Liberty First Amendment, Religious Freedom, Free Exercise Clause, Establishment Clause

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In Memoriam: Robert E. Rodes, Jr.

Richard Garnett, "Robert E. Rodes, Jr.", 61 American Journal of Jurisprudence 2 (2016).
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 04 Aug 2016
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Jurisprudence, Rodes, Legal History, Liberation Theology, Religious Freedom

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Wrongful Discrimination? Religious Freedom, Pluralism, and Equality

Timothy Shah, Thomas Farr & Jack Friedman, eds., Religious Freedom and Gay Rights: Emerging Conflicts in North America and Europe (Oxford University Press 2016)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Apr 2016
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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religious freedom, pluralism, equality, discrimination, gay rights, marriage, LGBT, First Amendment

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The Freedom of the Church: (Toward) an Exposition, Translation, and Defense

Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flands, and Zoe Robinson, eds., The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2015), Forthcoming, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 1528
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Oct 2015
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Religious Freedom, Hobby Lobby, Hosanna-Tabor, ministerial exception, First Amendment, religious liberty, church autonomy