John H. Garvey

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John Garvey

At a glance...
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Dean
Law School

john.garvey.1@bc.edu

Office Location
Law School
M307D

617.552.4340

     BACKGROUND

John H. Garvey is the Dean of the Boston College Law School and current president of the Association of American Law Schools. He attended college at Notre Dame (1970) and law school at Harvard (1974). Upon graduation from law school he clerked for Irving R. Kaufman on the Second Circuit. He later served as Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, and taught at Kentucky, Michigan, and Notre Dame before coming to Boston College in 1999. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Danforth Foundation. At age 34 he was elected to the American Law Institute.

Dean Garvey is the author of influential textbooks on constitutional theory and the first amendment. In 1996 he published What Are Freedoms For?

He coauthored Religion and the Constitution in 2006 (Aspen 2nd ed.), and Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church in 2007 (Crossroad).


EDUCATION

A.B., University of Notre Dame; J.D., Harvard University.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Presentations: Gave the Presidential Address to the AALS at the annual meeting in January 2008. 

"American Law Schools: Envy of the World or GM Before the Fall?" Federalist Society (New York) January 2008.

"I’ll Be Your Mirror," to the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section for the Law School Dean at the AALS 2003 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, in January 2007.

"Islam and the American Mind," at the Fulbright American Studies Institute for Muslim Religious Scholars, at the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College in September 2007.

"The Work of the Solicitor General’s Office," at a conference at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in September 2007.

"Shifting into Neutral," at the Federal Judicial Center National Symposium for US Court of Appeals Judges, Washington, DC, in October 2006.

"A Plea for Complexity," the annual Nathaniel L. Nathanson Memorial Lecture at the University of San Diego School of Law, California, in February 2006.

Activities: With Professors Kalscheur and McMorrow, represented BC Law at the Religiously Affiliated Law Schools Conference at Notre Dame Law School in March 2007.

Moderated the AALS Section for the Law School Dean panel entitled "Huis Clos: Through the Eyes of Others" at the association’s annual meeting in January 2007.

Led a panel presentation titled "Official Duties," for a symposium on the role of religion in the administration of the death penalty, at the College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, in April 2006.

Chaired a program entitled "Anti-discrimination and the Religious Exemption," at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, in January 2006.


Appointments: : Elected president of the Association of American Law Schools.

Other: Recipient of the 2004 Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award for Religion and the Constitution.

COURSES

Fall '07: No courses taught
Spring '08: Constitutional Law

PUBLICATIONS

  • With Lisa Sowle Cahill and T. Frank Kennedy, S.J., editors. Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 2006.
  • With Michael W. McConnell and Thomas C. Berg. Religion and the Constitution. 2nd ed. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2006.
  • With T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Daniel A. Farber. Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader. 5th ed. St. Paul, MN: West Thomson, 2004.
  • "Introduction." Boston College Law Review 44: no.4/5 (July/September 2003) (Symposium: The Impact of Clergy Sexual Misconduct Litigation on Religious Liberty): 947-948. Available online
  • "Law & Morality: Divorce, the Death Penalty & the Pope." Commonweal 129: issue 8 (April 19, 2002): 10.
  • "Tribute to Paul Oberst." Kentucky Law Journal 90: no.3 (Spring 2001/2002): 522-524.
  • With Michael W. McConnell, Thomas C. Berg. Religion and the Constitution. New York: Aspen Law & Business, 2002.
  • "The Business of Running a Law School." University of Toledo Law Review 33 (Fall 2001) (Leadership in Legal Education Symposium II): 37-48.
  • "What Does the Constitution Say About Vouchers?" Boston Bar Journal 44:no.1 (January/February 2000): 14-15, 31-32.
  • With T. Alexander Aleinikoff. Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader. 4th ed. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1999.
  • "Control Freaks." Drake Law Review 47 (1998): 1-17.
  • With Amy V. Coney. "Catholic Judges in Capital Cases." Marquette Law Review 81 (Winter 1998): 303-350.
  • "The Architecture of the Establishment Clause. " Wayne Law Review 43, no.3 (Spring/Summer 1997): 1451-1464.
  • "The Real Reason for Religious Freedom." First Things 71 (March 1997): 13-19.
  • "What's Next After Separationism?" Emory Law Journal 46 (Winter 1997): 75-83.
  • With Frederick Schauer. The First Amendment: A Reader. 2nd ed. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1996.
  • "All Things Being Equal..." Brigham Young Law Review 1996: 587-609.
  • What Are Freedoms For? Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.
  • "An Anti-Liberal Argument for Religious Freedom." Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 7 (Fall 1996): 275-291.
  • "Is There a Principle of Religious Liberty?" Review of Securing Religious Liberty: Principles For Judicial Interpretation of the Religion Clauses, by Jesse H. Choper; Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom, by Steven D. Smith. Michigan Law Review 94 (May 1996): 1379-1391.
  • With T. Alexander Aleinikoff. Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader. 3rd ed. St.Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1994.
  • "Introduction: Fundamentalism and Politics." 13-27. "Fundamentalism and American Law." 28-49. In Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance, edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • "Freedom and Representation." In Kindred Matters: Rethinking the Philosophy of the Family, edited by Diana Tietjens Meyers, Kenneth Kipnis, Cornelius F. Murphy, Jr., 180-193. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
  • "Black and White Images." Law and Contemporary Problems 56 (Autumn 1993): 189-216.
  • "The Pope's Submarine." San Diego Law Review 30 (Fall 1993): 849-876.
  • "Private Power and the Constitution." Constitutional Commentary 10 (Summer 1993): 311-318.
  • "Cover Your Ears." Case Western Reserve Law Review 43 (Spring 1993): 761-771.
  • With Frederick Schauer. The First Amendment: A Reader. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1992.
  • "Hauerwas on Religious Freedom." DePaul Law Review 42 (Fall 1992): 161-165.
  • "Introduction: The Rights of Groups." Kentucky Law Journal 80 (Summer 1991/1992): 862-867.
  • With T. Alexander Aleinikoff. Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. St.Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1991.
  • "Churches and the Free Exercise of Religion." Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 4 (1990): 567-589.
  • With T. Alexander Aleinikoff, editors. Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1989.
  • "The Powers and the Duties of Government." San Diego Law Review 26 (March/April 1989): 209-228.
  • "A Comment on 'Church and State in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century America.'" Journal of Law and Religion 7 (1989): 275-280.
  • Contributor. "Constitutional Scholarship: What Next?" Constitutional Commentary 5 (Winter 1988): 61-64.
  • "Foreword: Judicial Discipline and Impeachment." Kentucky Law Journal 76 (1987/1988): 633-641.
  • "Free Exercise and the Values of Religious Liberty." Connecticut Law Review 18 (Summer 1986): 779-802.
  • "The 'Program or Activity' Rule in Antidiscrimination Law: A Comment on S.272, H.R. 700 and S. 431." Harvard Journal on Legislation 23 (Summer 1986): 445-482.
  • Review of Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment, by Donald Alexander Downs. Constitutional Commentary 3 (Summer 1986): 462-471.
  • "A Comment on Religious Convictions and Lawmaking." Michigan Law Review 84 (May 1986): 1288-1294.
  • "Another Way of Looking at School Aid." Supreme Court Review 1985: 61-92.
  • "Freedom and Choice in Constitutional Law." Harvard Law Review 94 (1981): 1756-1794.
  • "Freedom and Equality in the Religion Clauses." Supreme Court Review 1981: 193-221.
  • Review of The Child & the State: A Normative Theory of Juvenile Rights, by Laurence D. Houlgate; Having Children: Philosophical and Legal Reflections on Parenthood, edited by Onora O'Neill and William Ruddick; Whose Child? Children's Rights, Parental Authority, and State Power, edited by William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette. Columbia Law Review 81 (October 1981): 1365-1371.
  • "A Litigation Primer for Standing Dismissals." New York University Law Review 55 (October 1980): 545-573.
  • With Beth Pederson Doutt. "[Kentucky Law Survey]: Civil Procedure." Kentucky Law Journal 68 (1979/1980): 529-555.
  • "Children and the Idea of Liberty: A Comment on the Civil Commitment Cases." Kentucky Law Journal 68 (1979/1980): 809-843.
  • "The Limits of Ancillary Jurisdiction." Texas Law Review 57 (May 1979): 697-724.
  • "Children and the First Amendment." Texas Law Review 57 (February 1979): 321-379.
  • "The Attorney's Affidavit in Litigation Proceedings." Stanford Law Review 31 (January 1979): 191-242.
  • With Bill Dorris. "[Kentucky Law Survey]: Civil Procedure." Kentucky Law Journal 67 (1978/1979): 489-522.
  • "Child, Parent, State, and the Due Process Clause." Southern California Law Review 51 (July 1978): 769-821.
  • "Judicial Consideration of the Delegation of Legislative Power to Regulatory Agencies in the Progressive Era." Indiana Law Journal 54 (1978:no.1): 45-63.