Notre Dame Law professors Rick Garnett and Derek Muller will review the most recent SCOTUS term and look ahead to next term's prospective caseload and decisions.
This event is hosted in honor of Constitution Day.
Professor Richard W. Garnett serves as the Paul J. Schierl Professor of Law and the Director, Program on Church, State & Society at Notre Dame Law School. He teaches and writes about the freedoms of speech, association, and religion and constitutional law more generally. He is a leading authority on questions and debates regarding the role of religious believers and beliefs in politics and society.
Garnett clerked for the late Chief Justice of the United States, William H. Rehnquist, and also for the late Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Richard S. Arnold. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995 and his B.A., summa cum laude, from Duke University in 1990. He joined the faculty in 1999 after practicing law in Washington, D.C. with Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin.
Professor Derek Muller is a nationally-recognized scholar in the field of election law and federal courts. His research focuses on federalism issues, particularly in election administration, ballot access, and the Electoral College.
He has published more than thirty academic works, and his op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has testified before Congress, and he is a contributor at the Election Law Blog. He is a co-author on a Federal Courts casebook published by Carolina Academic Press. He is also the co-reporter on a new Restatement of the Law, Election Litigation, an effort led by the American Law Institute.
At Notre Dame, Professor Muller teaches Election Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Federal Courts.
Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.