Law Review Articles, Chapters & Op-Eds

by Marci Hamilton | Aug 18, 2026

New York Times op-ed, Let There Be Light in Church

The Framers, Faith, and Tyranny, article, Roger Williams U. L. Rev.

The Calvinist Paradox of Distrust and Hope at the Constitutional Convention, chapter, in Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (1999)

The Case for Evidence-Based Free Exercise Accommodation: Why the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Is Bad Public Policy, Harvard Law & Policy Review

THE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DISCOURSE: STATUTORY RIGHTS MASQUERADING AS CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATES, Harvard Law & Policy Review

Debate with Prof. Michael McConnell at the National Constitution Center

Marci Hamilton

Marci A. Hamilton is a leading constitutional law scholar, Professor of Practice in Political Science and the Fox Family Pavilion Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania, and Founder of CHILD USA. A former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, she served as lead counsel in the landmark Supreme Court case Boerne v. Flores, successfully challenging the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). Professor Hamilton is a prominent critic of extreme religious liberty exemptions and the author of God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize) and Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children.

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