Richard W. Garnett

Notre Dame Law School

Professor of Law

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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
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
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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Religious Freedom and the Nondiscrimination Norm

in MATTERS OF FAITH: Religious Experience and Legal Response (Austin Sarat, ed.) (Cambridge Univ. Press), Forthcoming
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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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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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
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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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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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
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Death penalty, capital punishment, religion

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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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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, Church-State Separation, and the Ministerial Exception

Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Vol. 106, p. 175, 2011
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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A Quiet Faith? Taxes, Politics, and the Privatization of Religion

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 771, 2001
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 May 2006
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Can There Really Be 'Free Speech' in Public Schools?

Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 12, 2008
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
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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Chief Justice Rehnquist's Enduring, Democratic Constitution

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 395-399, 2006
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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'The Freedom of the Church': (Towards) an Exposition, Translation, and Defense

Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, (2013) Forthcoming
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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Religion and Group Rights: Are Churches (Just) Like the Boy Scouts?

St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary, Vol. 22, Fall 2007
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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The Political (and Other) Safeguards of Religious Freedom

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 32, p. 1815, 2011
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Jul 2011
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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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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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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'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
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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Do Churches Matter? Towards an Institutional Understanding of the Religion Clauses

Villanova Law Review, Forthcoming
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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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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Accommodation, Establishment, and Freedom of Religion

67 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 39 (2014)
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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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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'Modest Expectations'?: Civic Unity, Religious Pluralism, and Conscience

Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 06-17
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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Mild and Equitable Establishments

First Things (April 2019)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 27 Mar 2019
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Religious Freedom, First Amendment, Establishment of Religion, Religious Liberty, Church and State, Constitution, Liberalism

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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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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
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

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Debate: Judicial Activism and its Critics

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 155, p. 112, 2006
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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Pluralism, Dialogue, and Freedom: Professor Robert Rodes and the Church-State Nexus

Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 22
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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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
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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Taking Accommodation Seriously: Religious Freedom and the O Centro Case

CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW, pp. 257, 2005-2006
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Richard W. Garnett and Joshua D. Dunlap
Notre Dame Law School and Pierce Atwood LLP
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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).
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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Church, State, and the Practice of Love

Villanova Law Review, Vol. 52, p. 281, 2007
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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Chief Justice Rehnquist, Religious Freedom, and the Constitution

Bradford P. Wilson, ed., The Constitutional Legacy of William H. Rehnquist (West Academic Press, 2015 Forthcoming)
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 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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Jaycees Reconsidered: Judge Richard S. Arnold and the Freedom of Association

Arkansas Law Review, Vol. 59, 2005
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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A Hands-Off Approach to Religious Doctrine: What Are We Talking About?

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 2, 2009
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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Neutrality and the Good of Religious Freedom: An Appreciative Response to Professor Koppelman

Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 39, p. 1001, 2012
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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'There Are No Ordinary People': Christian Humanism and Christian Legal Thought

56 J. Cath. Leg. Stud. 77 (2017)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 26 Nov 2018
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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jurisprudence, humanism, Christian Legal Thought, Catholic Social Thought, human dignity, law and religion

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Judicial Enforcement of the Establishment Clause

Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming
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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Justice Scalia, Religious Freedom, and the First Amendment

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

43.

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

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, 2006
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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'Excluding Religion': A Response

University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNUMBRA, Forthcoming
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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Judicial Review, Local Values, and Pluralism

Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 08-37
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
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
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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Religious Freedom and the Churches: Contemporary Challenges in the United States Today

Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol. 32, Issue 4 (2019)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Jul 2019
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Religious freedom, Freedom of Religion, Religious liberty, pluralism, Freedom of association, Hosanna-Tabor, clergy abuse, First Amendment, Religion clauses, Ministerial exception, Secularism

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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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Attempts, Complicity, Virtue & the Limits of Law

Christianity and the Criminal Law, eds. Norman Doe, Dick Helmholz, Mark Hill, John Witte, Jr. (London: Routledge), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 Jan 2020
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Criminal Law, Punishment Theory, Criminal Justice, Attempts, Complicity, Virtue Ethics, Christian Legal Theory

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Book Review, Ellis M. West, The Free Exercise of Religion in America: Its Original Constitutional Meaning (2019)

Review of Politics 82 (2019), 1-3
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 06 Nov 2019
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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First Amendment, Free Exercise, Religious Liberty, Religious Freedom, Originalism, Church and State, 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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The Communitarian Work and Vision(s) of Robert Cochran (and Thomas Shaffer)

Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 46, 2019
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 06 Sep 2019
Richard W. Garnett
Notre Dame Law School
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Communitarianism, Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, Religious Lawyering, Law and Vocation, Religious Freedom, Church Autonomy, Religious Liberty

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

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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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