Whatever Happened to Freedom of Association?
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Stanford law professor Michael W. McConnell, an expert on freedom of speech and religion, delivered the 2011 Ralph Gregory Elliot Lecture on February 7, 2011, at Yale Law School.
McConnell is the Richard & Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, as well as Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a leading authority on freedom of speech and religion, the relation of individual rights to government structure, originalism, and various other aspects of constitutional history and constitutional law.
Before joining Stanford in 2009, McConnell served as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He is the only full-time professor of law in the nation who has previously served as a federal appellate judge. He has argued 13 cases in the United States Supreme Court, most recently Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, in 2010.
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