Government Religious Speech, the Ten Commandments, and the Establishment Clause
Recently, several states have passed laws requiring display of the Ten Commandments in public-school classrooms. Professor Mark Storslee (UNC-Chapel Hill Law) will explore the debate over these laws, their similarities and differences, and what the puzzle might tell us about the meaning of the Establishment Clause and the Supreme Court’s evolving Religion Clause jurisprudence.
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Professor Mark Storslee joined the Carolina Law faculty in 2025 and serves as Associate Professor and C. Boyden Gray Distinguished Scholar. His teaching and research interests include constitutional law, civil procedure, administrative law, and federal courts. Among other topics, his scholarship focuses on constitutional history, religious freedom, and First Amendment law generally. Storslee’s work has appeared in publications such as the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the University of Virginia Law Review, Vanderbilt University Law Review, and the Journal of Law & Religion.
Storslee holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (ethics) from the University of Virginia. He also holds masters degrees from Duke University and the University of Edinburgh and a B.A. from Furman University. After law school, Storslee clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and later for Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch on the United States Supreme Court. He previously taught at Penn State Law School and Emory Law School, and served as the Executive Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. He also worked as an appellate litigator at Williams & Connolly LLP.