Books
Lutheran Theology and Secular Law : The Work of the Modern State. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. Edited with R. Duty.
The Poverty Law Canon. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Edited with E. Rosser.
On Secular Governance: Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2016. Edited with R. W. Duty.
Feminism, Law and Religion. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2013. Edited with E. Schiltz, and S. Stabile.
Book Chapters
Feminism Meets Law and Religion: Commonalities and Critiques; Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. Ed. by R. Sandberg, N. Doe, B. Kane, C. Roberts.
Re-creating the Law of the Family : A Lutheran Perspective; Lutheran Theology and Secular Law : The Work of the Modern State. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. With P. Keifert. Ed. by M. Failinger and R. Duty.
A Tragedy of Two Americas: Jefferson v. Hackney; The Poverty Law Canon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Ed. by M. Failinger and E. Rosser.
On the Other Hand: God’s Care for the Creation and Its Dilemmas; Gift and Promise: The Augsburg Confession and the Heart of Christian Theology. Fortress Press, 2016. Ed. by
Co-creating Families in an Interdependent World; A Lutheran Perspective on Intercountry Adoption Law, The Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues Across Disciplines. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Ed. by R. Ballard, N. Goodno, R. Cochran and J. Milbrandt.
United States v. Ballard; Law and Religion: Cases in Context. Austin, Texas: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2010. Ed. by L. Griffin.
The Lesser Violence Than Murder and the Face-to-Face: “Illegal” Immigrants Stand Over American Law; Essays on Levinas and Law: A Mosaic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Ed. by D. Manderson.
We Must Spare No Diligence: The State and Childhood Education; Church and State: Lutheran Perspectives. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 2003. Ed. by J. Stumme and R. Tuttle.
Making our Home in the Works of God; Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2001. Ed. by M. McConnell, R. Cochran, Jr., A. Carmella.
Wondering after Babel: Power, Freedom and Ideology in US Supreme Court Interpretations of the Religion Clauses; Law and Religion. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2000. Ed. by R. Ahdar.
Jocasta Undone: Constitutional Courts in the Midst of Life and Death; Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Ed. by W. Eskridge and S. Levinson.
Constitutional and Legal Aspects of Educational Choice; Two Essays on Educations Choice: Lutheran Perspectives. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 1996.
Articles
Reflections on Nomos: Paideic Communities and Same Sex Weddings, 37 Touro Law Review 2253 (2022).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Islam in the Mind of American State Courts: 1960 to 2001, 28 Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice 21 (2019).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Searching the Legacy of the Reformation for Lutheran Responses to Modern Family Law, 4 Concordia Law Review 147 (2019).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Women and the Free Exercise Clause: Some Thoughts about a (Religious) Feminist Reading, 11 FIU Law Review 47 (2015).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
The Lutheran Lawyer: Some Reflections on the Ethics Contributions of Susan Martyn, 47 University of Toledo Law Review 63 (2015).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Pilgrim Finally at Rest: The Journey of Robert E. Rodes, Jr., 90 Notre Dame Law Review 1983 (2015).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Twenty-five Years of Law and Religion Scholarship: Some Reflections, 30 Touro Law Review 9 (2014).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Parallel Justice: Creating Causes of Action for Mandatory Mediation, 47 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 359 (2014).
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Moving Toward Human Rights Principles for Intercountry Adoption, 39 The North Carolina Journal of International & Commercial Regulation 523 (2014).
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Yick Wo at 125: Four Simple Lessons for the Contemporary Supreme Court, 17 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 217 (2012).
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Talking Chalk: Defacing the First Amendment in the Public Forum, 115 West Virginia Law Review 755 (2012).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
The Paradox in Madness: Vulnerability Confronts the Law, 1 Mental Health Law and Policy Journal 127 (2012).
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Islam in the Mind of American Courts, 32 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 1 (2012).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Finding a Voice of Challenge: The State Responds to Religious Women and Their Communities, 21 Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice 137 (2012).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Co-Creating Adoption Law: A Lutheran Perspective, 51 Dialog: A Journal of Theology 266 (2012).
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Ophelia with Child: A Restorative Approach to Legal Decision-making by Teen Mothers, 28 Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 255 (2010).
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Levinas, Law Schools and the Poor: They Stand Over Us, 35 Oklahoma City University Law Review 115 (2010).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Sex and the Statehouse: The Law and the American Same-Sex Marriage Debate, 48 Dialog: A Journal of Theology 19 (2009).
A Truly Good Work: Turning to Restorative Justice for Answers to the Welfare-to-Work Dilemma, 15 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law Policy 209 (2008).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Women’s Work: A Lutheran Feminist Critique, 4 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 405 (2007).
SSRN | HeinOnline
Recovering the Face-to-Face in American Immigration Law, 16 Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice 319 (2007).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
A Home of Its Own: The Role of Poverty Law in Furthering Law Schools’ Mission, 34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1173 (2007).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
No More Deaths: On Conscience, Civil Disobedience, and a New Role for Truth Commissions, 75 UMKC Law Review 401 (2006).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Lessons Unlearned: Women Offenders, the Ethics of Care, and the Promise of Restorative Justice, 33 Fordham Urban Law Journal 487 (2006).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Against Idols: The Court as Symbol-maker or Rhetorical Institution, 8 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 367 (2006).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
In Praise of Contextuality – Justice O’Connor and the Establishment Clause, 29 Hamline Law Review 7 (2006).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Can Good Judges Be Good Politician? Judicial Elections from a Virtue Ethics Approach, 70 Missouri Law Review 433 (2005).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Virtuous Judges and Electoral Politics: A Contradiction?, 67 Albany Law Review 769 (2004).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Pilgrimage or Exodus?: Responding to Faculty Faith Diversity at Religious Law Schools, 81 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 719 (2004).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
A Peace Proposal for the Same-Sex Marriage Wars: Restoring the Household to its Proper Place, 10 William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 195 (2004).
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‘Too Cheap Work for Anybody But Us’: Toward a Theory and Practice of Good Child Labor, 35 Rutgers Law Journal 1035 (2004).
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Voices Protesting and Affirming: Engaging the Culture of Law, 1 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 307 (2003).
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Not Mere Rhetoric: On Wasting or Claiming your Legacy, Justice Scalia, 34 University of Toledo Law Review 425 (2003).
Mitchell Hamline School of Law | SSRN
Is Tom Shaffer a Covenantal Lawyer?, 77 Notre Dame Law Review 705 (2002).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
A Word-and-Flesh Profession: A Response to White and Brueggemann, 53 Mercer Law Review 1035 (2002).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Remembering Mrs. Murphy: A Remedies Approach to the Conflict between Gay/Lesbian Renters and Religious Landlords, 29 Capital University Law Review 383 (2001).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Unmasking the Stranger: American Welfare Residency Rules and the Encounter with the Other, 5 Law Text Culture 223 (2000).
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Searching for the Crown of Feathers: An Essay on Psychology, Ethics, and Truth in Constitutional Law, 9 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 381 (2000).
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Gender, Justice and the Left Hand of God: A Lutheran Perspective, 9 Southern California Review of Law & Women’s Studies (2000).
Keeping Faith: An Essay on the Right to Travel, the Poor and the Ethical Demands of Constitutional Stare Decisis, 5 Loyola Poverty Law Journal 27 (1999).
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Five Modern Notions in Search of an Author: The Ideology of the Intimate Society in Constitutional Speech Law, 30 University of Toledo Law Review 251 (1999).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Face-ing the Other: An Ethics of Encounter and Solidarity in Legal Services Practice, 67 Fordham Law Review 2071 (1999).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Necessary Legends: The National Equal Justice Library and the Importance of Poverty Lawyers’ History, 17 St. Louis University Public Law Review 265 (1998).
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The Justice Who Wouldn’t Be Lutheran: Toward Borrowing the Wisdom of Faith Traditions, 46 Cleveland State Law Review 643 (1998).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
New Wine, New Bottles: Private Property Metaphors and Public Forum Speech, 71 St. John’s Law Review 217 (1997).
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Can Wrongs Be Rights? Why a ‘Conservative’ Might Support Legal Protection for Gay and Lesbian People, 14 Word & World 270 (1994).
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Gentleman as Hero: Atticus Finch and the Lonely Path, 10 Journal of Law and Religion 303 (1993-1994).
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Contract, Gift, or Covenant? A Review of the Law of Overpayments, 36 Loyola Law Review 89 (1990).
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Introduction: Home at Last: Poverty Law Returns to the Academy, 34 Loyola Law Review 1 (1988).
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Equality Versus the Right to Choose Associates: A Critique of Hannah Arendt’s View of the Supreme Court’s Dilemma, 49 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 143 (1987).
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The Minnesota Revenue Recapture Act: Little Brother Makes Good?, 7 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 1 (1986).
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An Offer She Can’t Refuse: When Fundamental Rights and Conditions on Government Benefits Collide, 31 Villanova Law Review 833 (1986).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Litigating Against Poverty: Legal Services and Group Representation, 45 Ohio State Law Journal 1 (1984). With Larry May.
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Other Publications
As We Consider the Witness of the Lutheran Church on Church and State, 22 (6) Journal of Lutheran Ethics (2022).
Read the Article
The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law, edited by Robert Fretwell Wilson [book review], 2019 Illinois Law Review Online 59.
Illinois Law Review Online
The ERA: This Time’s the Charm? 69 With Equal Right (Winter 2019).
With Equal Right
Lutheran and Yet Not Lutheran: A Church School Tests the Dilemma of Church and State, 75 The Cresset 19 (2012).
The Cresset
Pondering Conscience: Civil Disobedience in American Law and Same-Sex Dissent in the ECLA, 70 The Cresset 28 (2007).
The Cresset
H. Jefferson Powell on the American Constitutional Tradition: A Conversation [book review], 72 Notre Dame Law Review 11 (1996).
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