Leslie C. Griffin

William S. Boyd Professor of Law
Phone: (702) 895-2071
Education:
B.A., summa cum laude, University of Notre Dame
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University (Religious Studies)
J.D., Stanford Law School

Publications

Books

Leslie C. Griffin, Law and Religion: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 3d ed., forthcoming 2013; 2d ed. 2010; 1st ed. 2007).

Leslie C. Griffin, Law and Religion: Cases in Context (Aspen, 2010).

The Catholic Church, Morality and Politics (Leslie C. Griffin and Charles E. Curran, eds.) (Paulist Press, 2001).

Religion & Politics in the American Milieu (Leslie C. Griffin, ed., Special Issue, The Review of Politcs, 1989).

 

Book Contributions

Leslie C. Griffin, Religion and the Courts 1790-1947, in Cambridge History of Religion in America (S. J. Stein, ed., 2012).

Leslie C. Griffin, Religious Sanctity and Political Power, in The Legacy of Billy Graham: Reflections on America's Great Evangelist 107-21 (M. Long, ed., Westminster John Knox Press, 2008).

Leslie C. Griffin, The Story of Edwards v. Aguillard: The Genesis of Creation-Science, in Education Stories 255-67 (M. Olivas & R.G. Schneider, eds., Foundation Press, 2007).

Leslie C. Griffin, The Second Great Argument About Freedom, in A Just and True Love: Feminism at the Fronteirs of Theological Ehtics 406-28 (M. A. Ryan & B. F. Linnane, eds., University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).

Leslie C. Griffin, Bohatch v. Butler & Binion, in Legal Ethics Law Stories 55-87 (D. Rhode & D. Luban, eds., Foundation Press, 2005).

Leslie C. Griffin, Whistleblowing in the Business World, in Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Legal Implications 209-36 (N. Rapoport & B. Dharan, eds., Foundation Press, 2004).

Leslie C. Griffin, Pope John XXIII, in The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics and Human Nature Vol. I 145-72 (J. Witte & F. Alexander, eds., Columbia University Press, 2005); id. Vol. II, 94-115.

Leslie C. Griffin, Declaration on Religious Liberty, in Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations 244-65 (K. Himes, ed., Georgetown University Press, 2005).

Leslie C. Griffin, Citizen-Soldiers are Like Priests: Feminism in Law and Theology, in Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought 194-205 (M. McConnell, R. Cochran, A. Carmella, eds., Yale University Press, 2001).

Leslie C. Griffin, Evangelium Vitae: Abortion, in Evangelium Vitae 159-73 (K. Wildes and A. Mitchell, eds., Georgetown University Press, 1997); reprinted in C. Curran & R. McCormick, eds., Readings in Moral Theology No. 10 (1998).

Leslie C. Griffin, Moral Criticism as Moral Teaching, in The Making of an Economic Vision 250-60 (J. Houck and O. Williams, eds., 1991).

Leslie C. Griffin, The Church, Morality and Public Policy, in Moral Theology 241-60 (C. Curran, ed, 1990).

Leslie C. Griffin, American Catholic Sexual Ethics 1789-1989, in Perspectives on the American Catholic Church, 1789-1989 231-52 (S. Vicchio & V. Geiger, eds., 1989); reprinted in C. Curran & R. McCormick, eds., Readings in Moral Theology No. 8 (1993) 453-84.

 

Articles

Leslie C. Griffin, The Sins of Hosanna-Tabor, __ Indiana L.J. __ (forthcoming 2013).

Leslie C. Griffin, How Smith Protects Women’s Equality, 32 Cardozo L. Rev. 1831 (2011).

Leslie C. Griffin, Snyder v. Phelps: Searching for a Legal Standard, 2010 Cardozo L. Rev. De Novo 353.

Leslie C. Griffin, Fighting the New Wars of Religion: The Need for a Tolerant First Amendment, 62 Maine L. Rev. 23 (2010).

Leslie C. Griffin, No Law Respecting the Practice of Religion, 85 U. OF Detroit Mercy L. Rev. 475 (2008).

Leslie C. Griffin, Political Reason, 22 St. John's J. Legal Comment. 493 (2007).

Leslie C. Griffin, Conscience and Emergency Contraception, 6 Houston J. Health L. 299 (2006).

Leslie C. Griffin, Watch Out for Whistleblowers, 33:1 J. L. Med. & Ethics 160 (Spring 2005).

Leslie C. Griffin, What Might Have Been: Contraception and Religious Liberty, 1 U. of St. Thomas L.J. 632 (2003).

Leslie C. Griffin, What Do Clients Want? A Clients’ Theory of Professionalism, 52 Emory L.J. 1087 (2003).

Leslie C. Griffin, Fundamentalism from the Perspective of Liberal Tolerance, 24 Cardozo L. Rev. 1631 (2003).

Leslie C. Griffin, Their Own Prepossessions: The Establishment Clause 1999-2000, 33 Loy. U. Chi. L. Rev. 237 (2001).

Leslie C. Griffin, The Prudent Prosecutor, 14 Georgetown J. Legal Ethics 259 (2001).

Leslie C. Griffin, “We Do Not Preach. We Teach.”: Religion Professors and the First Amendment, 19 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 1 (2000).

Leslie C. Griffin, The Relevance of Religion to a Lawyer’s Work: Legal Ethics, 66 Fordham L. Rev. 1253 (1998).

Leslie C. Griffin, Good Catholics Should Be Rawlsian Liberals, 5 Southern Cal. Interdisc. L.J. 297 (1997).

Leslie C. Griffin, Whose Duties and Liabilities to Third Parties?, 37 S. Tex. L. Rev. 1191 (1996).

Leslie C. Griffin, The Lawyer’s Dirty Hands, 8 Georgetown J. Legal Ethics 219 (1995).

Leslie C. Griffin, The Trivialization of Religion, 1994 Wis. L. Rev. 1287 (1994).

Leslie C. Griffin, The Problem of Dirty Hands, 17 J. Relgious Ethics 31-61 (1989).

Leslie C. Griffin, Catholics, Blacks, Evangelicals: Three Versions of the Public Church, 1 New Theology Rev. 20-42 (1988).

Leslie C. Griffin, Women in Religious Congregations and Politics, 49 Theological Stud. 417-44 (1988).

Leslie C. Griffin, The Integration of Spiritual and Temporal, 48 Theological Stud. 225-57 (1987).

Leslie C. Griffin, Review Essay on Affirmative Action, 3 J. L. & Religion 455-61 (1985).

 

Commentaries, Essays, and Reviews

Leslie C. Griffin, Review Essay, Religion and Politics 2008-2009, 24 J.L. & Religion 205 (2010).

Leslie C. Griffin, Book Review, 7 Conversations in Religion & Theology 184 (2009) (reviewing Charles E. Curran, Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History (Geo. Univ. Press 2008)).

Leslie C. Griffin, Review Essay, Religion and Politics 2004-2007, 23 J.L. & Religion 321 (2007).

Leslie C. Griffin, Massachusetts Statute Highlights Controversy Over Access to Emergency Contraception, Health Law Perspectives (Jan. 20, 2006) available at http://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/perspectives/allarticles.asp.

Leslie C. Griffin, Book Review, 14 King's College L.J. 108 (2003) (reviewing Peter Cane, Responsibility in Law and Morality (Hart Publ’g 2002)).

Leslie C. Griffin, Hiding Behind the First Amendment, Gov't L. Pol. J., Winter/Spring 2003, at 55.

Leslie C. Griffin, Jimmy and Oliver, National Catholic Reporter, Mar. 15, 2002, at 18.

Leslie C. Griffin, Dedication [for Justice Hans Linde]: A Modest Relativism, 64 Alb. L. Rev. 1145 (2001).

Leslie C. Griffin, Book Review, 14 New Theology Rev. 89 (2001) (reviewing Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher, Dirty Hands: Christian Ethics in a Morally Ambiguous World (Fortress Press 2000)).

Leslie C. Griffin, A Response to Michael J. Perry, CTSA Proceedings 55 (2000): 86-88.

Leslie C. Griffin, Book Review, 76 J. Religion 485 (1996) (reviewing Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Harvard Univ. Press 1994)).

Leslie C. Griffin, Book Review, 8 J.L. & Religion 557 (1990) (reviewing Christopher F. Mooney, Public Virtue: Law and the Social Character of Religion (Univ. Notre Dame Press 1986)).

Leslie C. Griffin, Review Essay on Sexual Ethics, 160 America 227 (Mar. 11, 1989).

Leslie C. Griffin, Book Review, 56 J. Am. Acad. Religion 325 (1988) (reviewing Charles E. Curran, Toward an American Catholic Moral Theology (1987)).

Leslie C. Griffin, Book Review, 55 J. Am. Acad. Religion 416 (1987) (reviewing J. Philip Wogaman, Faith and Fragmentation (1985)).

 

Encyclopedia Entries

Leslie C. Griffin, “John Courtney Murray,” Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties 2:1049 (P. Finkelman ed., 2006).

Leslie C. Griffin, “Euthanasia,” Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity 317 (D. Shelton, ed., Macmillan 2005).

Leslie C. Griffin, “Religious Freedom: Catholicism,” in Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom (C. Cookson, ed., Berkshire/Routledge, 2003).

 

Practice Oriented Publications

Leslie C. Griffin, Law in a Flash: Constitutional Law (ed., 2008, 2011).

Curriculum Vitae
Bio

Areas of Expertise
Bioethics
Constitutional Law
First Amendment
Law and Religion