Paul Horwitz
Gordon Rosen Professor of Law
205-348-6110
phorwitz@law.ua.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Comparative Constitutional Law
Law & Religion
Constitutional Law
First Amendment
Paul Horwitz
Professor Horwitz teaches law and religion, constitutional law, and legal profession. He received his B.A. in English Literature from McGill Universtiy in Montreal in 1990, M.S., with honors, in Journalism from Columbia University in 1991, LL.B. from the University of Toronto in 1995 where he was co-editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review, and LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 1997. Professor Horwitz clerked for the Honorable Ed Carnes of the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Before joining the University of Alabama, Professor Horwitz was an associate professor at the Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, the University of San Diego School of Law, and Notre Dame Law School. In addition to having written and spoken widely on issues of constitutional law, Professor Horwitz is a member of the popular legal blog Prawfsblawg.
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Professor Horwitz's publications include:
• Book: First Amendment Institutions. Under contract with Harvard University Press.
• Book: Constitutional Agnosticism. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
• “Democracy as the Rule of Law” in When Governments Break the Law: The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration (Austin Sarat & Nasser Hussain, eds.) (forthcoming from New York University Press).
• “Order in the Courts” in Sovereignty, Legality, and Emergency (Austin Sarat, ed.) (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press).
• “Anonymity, Signaling, and Silence as Speech” in Speech and Silence in American Law (Austin Sarat, ed.) (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press).
• “Of Footnote One and the Counter-Jurisdictional Establishment Clause: The Story of Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe” in First Amendment Stories (forthcoming from Foundation Press).
• Book Review: Law’s Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics, by Gordon Silverstein, 59 Journal of Legal Education 467 (2010).
• Review Essay, “Judicial Character (And Does it Matter)” 26 Constitutional Commentary 97 (2009).
• “Honor’s Constitutional Moment: The Oath and Presidential Transitions” 103 Northwestern University Law Review 1067 (2009).
• “Demographics and Distrust: The Eleventh Circuit on School Prayer in Adler v. Duval County” 63 University of Miami Law Review 835 (2009).
• “Religion and American Politics: Three Views of the Cathedral” 39 University of Memphis Law Review 973 (2009).
• “The Philosopher’s Brief” 25 Constitutional Commentary 285 (2009).
• Book Review: Law and Judicial Duty, by Philip Hamburger, 10 Engage 131 (July 2009).
• “Churches As First Amendment Institutions: Of Spheres and Sovereignty” 44 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 79 (2009).
• “Three Faces of Deference” 83 Notre Dame Law Review 1061 (2008).
• “Universities as First Amendment Institutions: Some Easy Answers and Hard Questions” 54 UCLA Law Review 1497 (2007). Invited contribution to symposium.
• “Uncovering Identity” 105 Michigan Law Review 1283 (2007) (review of Kenji Yoshino, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (2006)).
• “‘Evaluate Me!’: Conflicted Thoughts on Gatekeeping in Legal Scholarship’s New Age” 39 Connecticut Law Review CONNtemplations 39 (2007). Invited contribution to premier issue of online law review supplement.
• “Religious Tests in the Mirror: The Constitutional Law and Constitutional Etiquette of Religion in Judicial Nominations” 15 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 75 (2006). Invited contribution to print symposium based on presentation to AALS Law & Religion Section at AALS Annual Meeting, January 7, 2006.
• “Or of the [Blog]” 11 NEXUS 45 (2006). Invited contribution to symposium.
• “Grutter’s First Amendment” 46 Boston College Law Review 461 (2005).
• “Free Speech As Risk Analysis: Heuristics, Biases, and Institutions in the First Amendment” 76 Temple Law Review 1 (2003). Selected as lead article in volume. Reprinted in First Amendment Law Handbook, 2004-2005 Edition (James L. Swanson, ed. 2004).
• “Law’s Expression: The Promise and Perils of Judicial Opinion Writing in Canadian Constitutional Law” (2000) 38 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 101. Refereed journal.
• “Citizenship and Speech” (1998) 43 McGill Law Journal 445. Review essay. Refereed journal.
• “The Past, Tense: The History of Crisis – and the Crisis of History – in Constitutional Theory” (1997) 61 Albany Law Review 459. Review essay.
• Book Review – Foreign Affairs and the United States Constitution, 2nd ed., by Louis Henkin (1997) 35 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 723. Invited contribution.
• “Scientology in Court: A Comparative Analysis and Some Thoughts on Selected Issues in Law and Religion” (1997) 47 DePaul Law Review 85.
• “The Sources and Limits of Freedom of Religion in a Liberal Democracy: Section 2(a) and Beyond” (1996) 54 University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review 1. Winner of the Martin L. Friedland Prize for best article in a volume of the Law Review, a J.S.D. Tory Fellowship, and a McMillan Binch Essay Fellowship. Selected as lead article in volume.
• “Jury Selection After Dagenais: Prejudicial Pre-trial Publicity” (1996) 42 Criminal Reports (4th) 220.
• Book Review – Bankruptcy and Family Law, by Robert Klotz (1996) 26 Canadian Business Law Journal 472.
• “Anti-Abortion Protests and the Public Forum: A Comment on Ontario (Attorney General) v. Dieleman” (1995) 17 Advocates' Quarterly 466.
• “Bora Laskin and the Legal Process School” (1995) 59 Saskatchewan Law Review 77. Refereed journal.
• “Regulating TV Violence: An Analysis of the Voluntary Code Regarding Violence in Television” (1994) 52 University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review 345. Winner of a McMillan Binch Essay Fellowship.