Lawrence Sager
- Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair
- Professor
Lawrence Sager is one of the nation's preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars with expertise in constitutional law, religion and law, jurisprudence, and the legal process. He is the author and co-author of several articles, many now classics in the canon of legal scholarship. Professor Sager also authored the book “Justice in Plainclothes: A Theory of American Constitutional Practice,” and co-authored “Religious Freedom and the Constitution.”
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Lawrence Sager is one of the nation's preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars. Professor Sager came to Texas from New York University School of Law, where he was the Robert B. McKay Professor and Co-Founder of the Program in Law, Philosophy & Social Theory. He has also taught at Harvard, Princeton, Boston University, UCLA, and the University of Michigan. Professor Sager is the author or co-author of dozens of articles, many now classics in the canon of legal scholarship. Sager is the author of two books: Justice in Plainclothes: a Theory of American Constitutional Practice (Yale Univ. Press), and Religious Freedom and the Constitution (co-authored with Christopher Eisgruber) (Harvard Univ. Press).
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year-2002
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Book Chapter
Free Exercise of Culture: Some Doubts and Distinctions
Lawrence Sager, Free Exercise of Culture: Some Doubts and Distinctions in Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies 165 (R. Schweder, H.Markus, & M.Minnow, eds.; New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 2002) (modification of prior essay in Daedalus).
year-2001
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Book Chapter
Equal Regard
Lawrence Sager, Equal Regard in Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology 200 (S. Feldman, ed.; New York: New York Univ. Press, 2001) (with C. Eisgruber). -
Book Chapter
The Birth Logic of a Democratic Constitution
Lawrence Sager, The Birth Logic of a Democratic Constitution in Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule 110 (J. Ferejohn, J. Rakove & J. Riley, eds.; New York, NY: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001). -
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Thin Constitutions and the Good Society [Symposium: The Constitution and the Good Society: The Constitution Outside the Courts and the Pursuit of a Good Society]
Lawrence Sager, Thin Constitutions and the Good Society [Symposium: The Constitution and the Good Society: The Constitution Outside the Courts and the Pursuit of a Good Society], 69 Fordham Law Review 1989 (2001).
year-2000
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Article
Religious Liberty and the Moral Structure of Constitutional Rights
Lawrence Sager, Religious Liberty and the Moral Structure of Constitutional Rights, 6 Legal Theory 253 (2000) (with C. Eisgruber). -
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Impeachment and Constitutional Structure
Lawrence Sager, Impeachment and Constitutional Structure, 5 Widener Law Symposium Journal 249 (2000) (with C. Eisgruber). -
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The Free Exercise of Culture: Doubts and Distinctions
Lawrence Sager, The Free Exercise of Culture: Doubts and Distinctions, 149 Daedalus 193 (2000). -
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A Letter to the Supreme Court Regarding the Missing Argument in Brzonzkala v. Morrison
Lawrence Sager, A Letter to the Supreme Court Regarding the Missing Argument in Brzonzkala v. Morrison, 75 New York University Law Review 150 (2000).
year-1999
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Article
Forgetting and Advancing the Religious Liberty Vision of Justice Brennan [Symposium: The Domain of Constitutional Justice]
Lawrence Sager, Forgetting and Advancing the Religious Liberty Vision of Justice Brennan [Symposium: The Domain of Constitutional Justice], 43 New York University Law Review 101 (1999). -
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Punishing The President: The Use and Abuse of Impeachment
Lawrence Sager, Punishing The President: The Use and Abuse of Impeachment, 1 Punishment & Society 223 (1999) (with C. Eisgruber). -
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Contemporary Challenges Facing the First Amendment's Religion Clauses
Lawrence Sager, Contemporary Challenges Facing the First Amendment's Religion Clauses [Symposium: Remembering and Advancing the Constitutional Vision of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.], 43 New York School Law Review 101 (1999) (with Todd Rakoff, Steven Green & Martha Minow). View Article
year-1998
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Article
Special Exemptions? A Compelling Case Against 'Compelling State Interest'?
Lawrence Sager, Special Exemptions? A Compelling Case Against 'Compelling State Interest'?, 93 Liberty 10 (November/December 1998). -
Book Chapter
The Domain of Constitutional Justice
Lawrence Sager, The Domain of Constitutional Justice in Constitutionalism: Philosophical Foundations 235 (L. Alexander, ed.; New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998). -
Book Chapter
Good Constitutions and Bad Choices
Lawrence Sager, Good Constitutions and Bad Choices in Constitutional Stupidities and Constitutional Tragedies 147 (W. Eskridge & S. Levinson, eds.; New York: New York Univ. Press, 1998) (with C. Eisgruber). -
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Congress As Partner/Congress As Adversary [Symposium: Reviving the Structural Constitution--Symposium on Law and Public Policy-1998]
Lawrence Sager, Congress As Partner/Congress As Adversary [Symposium: Reviving the Structural Constitution--Symposium on Law and Public Policy-1998], 22 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 85 (1998). -
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Klein's First Principle: A Proposed Solution [Symposium: Congress and the Courts: Jurisdiction and Remedies]
Lawrence Sager, Klein's First Principle: A Proposed Solution [Symposium: Congress and the Courts: Jurisdiction and Remedies], 86 Georgetown Law Journal 2525 (1998).
year-1997
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Article
Protecting Without Favoring Religiously Motivated Conduct
Lawrence Sager, Protecting Without Favoring Religiously Motivated Conduct, 2 Nexus 103 (1997) (with C. Eisgruber). -
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The Betrayal of Judgment [Symposium: Fidelity in Constitutional Theory]
Lawrence Sager, The Betrayal of Judgment [Symposium: Fidelity in Constitutional Theory], 65 Fordham Law Review 1545 (1997). -
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Congressional Power and Religious Liberty After City of Boerne v. Flores
Lawrence Sager, Congressional Power and Religious Liberty After City of Boerne v. Flores, 1997 Supreme Court Review 79 (with C. Eisgruber).
year-1996
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Book Chapter
The Sources and Limits of Legal Authority
Lawrence Sager, The Sources and Limits of Legal Authority in Fundamentals of American Law 27 (Alan B. Morrison, ed.; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).