Education:

• B.A. (1983), magna cum laude, Gustavus Adolphus College.
• M.A.(1988) The University of Chicago.
• J.D. (1989), Northwestern University School of Law.
• Ph.D. (2002), The University of Chicago.

Professional Experience:

• Associate Professor of Law, 2002 - 2005
• Assistant Professor of Law, 1998 - 2002
• Adjunct Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, 1997
• Associate, Grippo & Elden ( Chicago , IL ) ( 1992-1994)
• Associate, Schiff Hardin ( Chicago , IL ) (1989-1991)
  
  

Areas of Expertise:

• Business Associations
• Constitutional Law
• First Amendment
• Jurisprudence
• Law and Religion
• Legal Theory
• Philosophical and Theological Ethics
• Philosophy of Religion
• Religion and Political Theory
• Secured Transactions
  
  

Publications:

Articles:

• Beyond Theocracy and Secularism (Part I): Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Religion, 27 Miss. C. L. Rev. 159 (2007).
• Symposium Introduction, 27 Miss. C. L. Rev. 1 (2007) (Symposium on Religion, Religious Pluralism, and the Rule of Law).
• Secularization, Legal Indeterminacy, and Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law, 35 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 73 (2007).
• A Process Theory of Natural Law and the Rule of Law in China, Penn. St. Int'l L. Rev. (forthcoming).
• Prolegomena to a Process Theory of Natural Law in Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought (Michel Wever ed., Ontos Verlag, forthcoming). 
  
• Reenchanting the Law: The Religious Dimension of Judicial Decision Making, 53 Cath. U. L. Rev. 709 (2004).
  
• Reenchanting International Law, 22 Miss. C. L. Rev. 263 (2003)(Symposium on Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Global Perspective).
  
• Symposium Introduction, 22 Miss. C. L. Rev. 165 (2003)(Symposium on Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Global Perspective).
  
• Reenchanting the Law: The Religious Dimension of Judicial Decision Making (Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Chicago 2002).
  
• A Pragmatic Justification of the Judicial Hunch, 35 U. Rich. L. Rev. 55 (2001).
  
• Corrective Justice and the Revival of Judicial Virtue, 12 Yale J.L. & Human. 249 (2000).
  
• The Religious Dimension of Judicial Decision Making and The Defacto Disestablishment, 81 Marq. L. Rev. 255 (1998).
  
• Habermas’s Discourse Theory of Law and the Relationship Between Law and Religion, 26 Cap. U. L. Rev. 461 (1997).
  
• Comment, Section 337 and GATT in the Akzo Controversy, 9 Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus. 382 (1988), reprinted in 22 Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 189 (1990).
  
  Book Reviews:
  
  
• Book Review, 88 J. Religion 257 (2008) (reviewing Michael J. Perry, Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts (2007)).
• Book Review, 86 J. Religion 342 (2006)( reviewing James Hitchcock, The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life: The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses (Vol. 1)(2004) and James Hitchcock, The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life: From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples" (Vol. 2) (2004)). 
• Book Review, Law and Politics Book Review, Volume 15, No. 8 (August 27, 2005) ( http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/hammond-machacek-mazur805.htm ) ( reviewing Phillip E. Hammond, et al. Religion on Trial: How Supreme Court Trends Threaten Freedom of Conscience in America   (2004)). 
  
• Book Review, 84 J. Religion 136 (2004)(reviewing Lucinda Peach, Legislating Morality: Pluralism and Religious Identity in Lawmaking (2002)).
  
• Book Review, Law & Politics Book Review, Vol. 13, No. 10 (October 2003) (http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/ Bauman1003.htm) (reviewing Richard W. Bauman, Ideology and Community in the First Wave of Critical Legal Studies (2002)).
  
• Book Review, 82 J. Religion 313 (2002)(reviewing Eric Michael Mazur, The Americanization of Religious Minorities(1999)).
  
• Book Review, 16 J. Law & Relig. 823 (2001)(reviewing Franklin I. Gamwell, Democracy on Purpose: Justice and the Reality of God (2000)).
  
• Book Review, 79 J. Religion 160 (1999) (reviewing Michael J. Perry, Religion in Politics: Constitutional and Moral Perspectives (1997)).

Work in progress:

• Beyond Theocracy and Secularism (Part II): A New Paradigm for Law and Religion, Journal of Law and Religion 25TH Anniversary Symposium (article for symposium). 

• Process Thought, Political Theory, and Law, Center for Process Studies(planning conference for 2008) (initial planning meeting November 15-16, 2007).

• Reenchanting the Law: The Religious Dimension of Judicial Decision Making (book manuscript being revised for publication).
  

RECENT presentations and CONFERENCE PAPERS:

• Beyond Theocracy and Secularism (Part II): A New Paradigm for Law and Religion, Journal of Law and Religion 25TH Anniversary Symposium, (October 23-25, 2008).
  
  
• Panel Chair and Presenter, Beyond Theocracy and Secularism (Part I): Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Religion, Panel on Locating Law and Religion, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (May 29-June 1, 2008).
  
  
• Beyond Theocracy and Secularism (Part I): Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Religion, Faculty Colloquium, University of St. Thomas School of Law (April 4, 2008).
  
  
• Beyond Theocracy and Secularism (Part I): Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Religion, Faculty Colloquium, Hamline University School of Law (April 3, 2008).
  
  
• Panel Chair and Presenter, Constructive Postmodern Relational Ontology: Moving Beyond Modern and Deconstructive Postmodern Legal Theory, Panel on Ontology and Legal Theory, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, University of California at Berkeley (March 28-29, 2008).
  
  
• A Process Theory of Natural Law and the Rule of Law in China, Conference entitled Law, Morality, and Politics from a Constructive, Post-modern Perspective, China University for Political Science and Law, Beijing, China (July 8-9, 2007).
  
  
• Prolegomena to a Process Theory of Natural Law, Panel on Law and Ontology, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Georgetown Law School, Washington, D.C. (March 23-24, 2007).
  
  
• Program Chair and Presenter, Religion, Religious Pluralism, and the Rule of Law , Section on Law and Religion, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (January 3, 2007)(program to be published in Mississippi College Law Review , Winter 2007).  (Click Here for Details)
  
  
• Law and Religion: Taking Religion Seriously, Law and Religion Forum (with Michael J. Perry), Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, Mississippi (September 22, 2006).
  
  
• Prolegomena to a Process Theory of Natural Law, Section on Law, Human Rights, and the Rights of Nature at the International Whitehead Conference, Salzburg, Austria (July 3-6, 2006)(Co-Chair of Section on Law, Human Rights, and the Rights of Nature and presenter).
  
  
• The Ten Commandments, Religious Pluralism, and Conceptions of Law, Federalist Debate, Mississippi College School of Law (April 17, 2006).
  
  
• The Ten Commandments, Religious Pluralism, and Conceptions of Law, for Third Annual Austin College Law Symposium, Press Freedom and Religious Liberty in America, Austin College, Sherman, Texas   (March 31, 2006) ( http://www.austincollege.edu/Info.asp?4734 ).
  
  
• Conceptions of Law and the Separation of Church and State, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (March 17, 2006).
  
  
• Reenchanting the Law: Religious Pluralism and Conceptions of Law, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (March 12, 2005).
  
  
• Reenchanting the Law: The Religious Dimension of Judicial Decision Making, The Center for Process Studies, a faculty center of Claremont School of Theology and affiliated with Claremont Graduate University (January 10, 2005).
  
  
• Moderator for a Conference entitled The Sacred and The Secular: Three Conversations in Law, Religion, and Ethics, which is the 15th Annual Law, Religion and Ethics Symposium at Hamline University, School of Law (October 22, 2004).
  
  
• Reenchanting International Law, Section on Law and Religion, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (January 3, 2003).
  
  
• Reenchanting International Law, Conference: Democracy, Globalization, and Law (Co-Sponsored by Hamline University School of Law and the Center for Process Studies) St. Paul, Minnesota (September 19-23, 2002).
  
  
• Religion and the Full Justification of Judicial Decisions in Hard Cases, Section on Law and Religion, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (January 6, 2001).

Honors AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS:

• Outstanding Professor of the Year 2003-2004 for the School of Law.
• Association of American Law Schools: Section on Law and Religion Co-Chair (2002), Co-Chair Elect and Newsletter Editor (2008, 2001), Program Co-Chair (2007, 2000), and Member of House of Representatives (2005, 2003, 2001).
• American Bar Association
• American Academy of Religion
• Society of Christian Ethics
  

Admissions:

• Illinois Bar
• Northern District of Illinois (1989).