Andrew Koppelman

John Paul Stevens Professor of Law

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

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Related Links: Center for Legal Studies

Andrew Koppelman, who joined the law school faculty in fall 1997, is an expert in constitutional law and political philosophy. His current research focuses on paternalism and perfectionism in the law, with special attention to the enforcement of morals.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Constitutional Law
First Amendment

Conflicts of Law
Law and Religion

COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines, Dec. 2006, Yale U. Press
Forced Labor: A Thirteenth Amendment Defense of Abortion, 84 Northwestern U. L. Rev. 480 (1990) (pdf)
Does Obscenity Cause Moral Harm?, 105 Columbia L. Rev. 1635 (2005) (pdf)
The Fluidity of Neutrality, 66 Review of Politics 633 (2004) (pdf)

Recent Publications

Phony Originalism and the Establishment Clause, 2008
Is Pornography “Speech”?, LEGAL THEORY , 2008
The Limits of Strategic Litigation, LAW & SEXUALITY , 2008
Free Speech and Pornography: A Response to James Weinstein, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY REVIEW OF LAW & SOCIAL CHANGE , 2008
Why Phyllis Schlafly is Right (But Wrong) About Pornography, HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY , 2008

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JOINT APPOINTMENTS

Faculty, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science

EDUCATION

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

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin, 1997
Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University, 1992-97
Fellow, Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions, 1994-95
Law Clerk, Chief Justice Ellen A. Peters, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1991-92
Professional Staff Member, specializing in product liability reform, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on the Consumer, 1986-87

RECENT CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

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