Andrew M. Koppelman

Koppelman, Andrew M.

John Paul Stevens Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-8431
E-mail: akoppelman@law.northwestern.edu

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Andrew Koppelman is John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.  His scholarship focuses on issues at the intersection of law and political philosophy.  He is the author of Defending American Religious Neutrality (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2012), A Right to Discriminate? How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association (with Tobias Barrington Wolff, Yale University Press, 2009), Same Sex, Different States:  When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines (Yale University Press, 2006), The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Antidiscrimination Law and Social Equality (Yale University Press, 1996), which won a Myers Center Award, and more than 80 articles in books and scholarly journals.  His article, Bad News for Mail Robbers: The Obvious Constitutionality of Health Care Reform, is the most viewed article in the history of the Yale Law Journal Online (over 100,000 hits in the first month of posting).  He is also an occasional contributor to the Balkinization blog.

Areas of Expertise

  • Conflicts of Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • First Amendment
  • Law and Religion

Courses

Selected Publications

  • Does Obscenity Cause Moral Harm? in 105 columbia law review 1635-1679 (2005).
  • Forced Labor, Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion in The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment (Columbia University Press, 2010).
  • Naked Strong Evaluation in 56 dissent 105 (Winter 2009).
  • Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines (Yale University Press, 2006).
  • The Fluidity of Neutrality in 66 review of politics 633-648 (2004).

Joint Appointments

Education

  • AB, University of Chicago
  • MA, Yale University
  • JD, Yale University
  • PhD, Yale University

Prior Appointments

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, 1997, University of Texas at Austin
  • Assistant Professor of Politics, 1992-1997, Princeton University
  • Fellow, 1994-1995, Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions
  • Law Clerk, 1991-1992, Chief Justice Ellen A. Peters, Connecticut Supreme Court
  • Professional Staff Member, specializing in product liability reform, 1986-1987, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on the Consumer

Recent Consulting Activities

  • Zappone v. Revenue Commissioners (Ireland), Oct. 2006