STEPHEN M. FELDMAN

JERRY W. HOUSEL/ CARL F. ARNOLD DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF LAW

  AND ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

 

Office: 207 College of Law Building
Telephone: 307-766-4250
Email address: sfeldman@uwyo.edu

 

Stephen M. Feldman has been the Jerry W. Housel/Carl F. Arnold Distinguished Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science since 2002. He teaches classes in Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence and has published numerous books and articles in these fields.

Before joining the University of Wyoming College of Law, Feldman was Professor of Law and Associate Member of Political Science at the University of Tulsa (1986-2002). Before that, he served as a Teaching Fellow at Stanford University School of Law (1984-1986) and as a Judicial Clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Office of Staff Attorneys. In the fall of 1999, he was a Professor in Residence in London, England, and in 1998, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow.

Education

J.S.M., Stanford University, 1986.
J.D., University of Oregon, 1982 (Order of the Coif; Art. Ed., Or. L. Rev.).
B.A., Hamilton College, Philosophy, 1977.

Recent Publications

Books
Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology (New York University Press, 2000): editor.

American Legal Thought From Premodernism to Postmodernism: An Intellectual Voyage (Oxford University Press, 2000): finalist for 2001 Oklahoma Book Award; translated into Japanese.

Please Don’t Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State (New York University Press, 1997): awarded the Josephine Yalch Zekan Prize.

Articles and Essays

Unenumerated Rights in Different Democratic Regimes, U. Pa. J. Const. L. (forthcoming) (in Symposium: The Future of Unenumerated Rights).

Empiricism, Religion, and Judicial Decision Making, 15 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. (forthcoming) (in Symposium: Religion, Division, and the Constitution).

The Theory and Politics of First-Amendment Protections: Why Does the Supreme Court Favor Free Expression Over Religious Freedom?, U. Pa. J. Const. L. (forthcoming).

Religious Symbols on Public Property, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman ed., Routledge, forthcoming).

The Bad Tendency Test, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman ed., Routledge, forthcoming).

Postmodernism and Law, in Encyclopedia of Legal History (Stanley N. Katz ed., Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Review of Isaac Kramnick & R. Laurence Moore, The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State, 15 Law & Politics Book Rev. 1010 (stet: Nov. 2005).

The Problem of Critique: Triangulating Habermas, Derrida, and Gadamer Within Metamodernism, 4 Contemp. Pol. Theory 296 (2005).

The Rule of Law or the Rule of Politics? Harmonizing the Internal and External Views of Supreme Court Decision Making, 30 L. & Soc. Inquiry 89 (2005).

The Transformation of an Academic Discipline: Law Professors in the Past and Future (or Toy Story Too), 54 J. Legal Educ. 471 (2004).

Religious Minorities and the First Amendment: The History, the Doctrine, and the Future, 6 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 222 (2003).

Jews in the United States, in Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom 235 (Catharine Cookson et al. eds., Berkshire/Routledge Publishing, 2003).

History and Interpretation, 38 Tulsa L. Rev. 595 (2003) (in Legal Scholarship Symposium: The Scholarship of Sanford V. Levinson).

History and Law, in The Oxford Companion to American Law 361 (Kermit L. Hall ed., Oxford University Press, 2002).

An Arrow to the Heart: The Love and Death of Postmodern Legal Scholarship, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 2351 (2001).

How to Be Critical, 76 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 893 (2000) (in Symposium on Philosophical Hermeneutics and Critical Legal Theory).

Critical Questions in Law and Religion: An Introduction, in Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology 1 (Stephen M. Feldman ed., New York University Press, 2000).

A Christian America and the Separation of Church and State, in Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology 261 (Stephen M. Feldman ed., New York University Press, 2000).

The Supreme Court in a Postmodern World: A Flying Elephant, 84 Minn. L. Rev. 673 (2000).

Made For Each Other: The Interdependence of Deconstruction and Philosophical Hermeneutics, 26 Phil. & Soc. Criticism 51 (2000).

Playing With the Pieces: Postmodernism in the Lawyer’s Toolbox, 85 Va. L. Rev. 151 (1999).

Recent Presentations

Free Speech and Democracy: A History: University of Wyoming (October 2003).

The Sacred Balance of Law and Religion—Panel Discussion: University of Wyoming (October 2003).

On Legal Scholarship: University of Wyoming (September 2003).

Workshop/Conference on Law and Religion, Program in Law and Public Affairs: Princeton University (February 2003).

Judicial Review and Republican Democracy: In Celebration of Marbury v. Madison: University of Wyoming (February 2003).

Radio Interview on Christmas and the Separation of Church and State: Dave Rutherford Show (Canada) (December 13, 2002).

Radio Interview on Christmas Symbols in Public Places: Ken Van Lith Show (Canada) (December 12, 2002).

Doctrinal Innovations, Religious Minorities, and the Future of First Amendment Jurisprudence: University of Colorado (fall 2002).

Panel Discussion on Religious Freedom and the Scopes Trial: University of Wyoming (fall 2002).

The Special Status of Religion in American Constitutionalism: A Historical Perspective: AALS Annual Conference, Law and Religion Section (January 2002).

The Constraints of Judicial Minimalism: University of Texas at Austin (fall 2001); University of Tulsa College of Law Faculty (fall 2001).

The Development of Religious Freedom as a Constitutional Norm: University of Denver School of Law (spring 2001); University of Tulsa College of Law Faculty (spring 2001).

The United States Supreme Court and Conservative Postmodernism: Conference on Legal Theory at the Fin de Siècle, Birkbeck College, University of London, England (fall 1999).