Marie Failinger
ProfessorEmail: mfailinger@hamline.edu
Phone: 651 523-2124
B.A., Valparaiso University
J.D., Valparaiso University School of Law
LL.M., Yale University Law School
Professor Failinger was admitted in Indiana and is currently a member of the Minnesota bar. Formerly a staff attorney with Legal Services Organization of Indiana, she has continued her work on behalf of the disadvantaged as a founding member of the National Equal Justice Library, AALS Poverty Law Section, Law Teachers for Legal Services, American Indian Policy Institute, and MiCAEL (arts and law organization.) She is the editor of the internationally recognized Journal of Law and Religion, as an editorial board member and contributor to the online Journal of Lutheran Ethics, and a founding Board member of Church Innovations Institute and Lutheran Innovations. She has been professionally active in the American Association of Law Schools and Minnesota Women Lawyers, and has served on nonprofit boards or committees on legal services to the poor, adoption, fair housing, medical ethics, children and the law, and human rights issues. She has also taught in the clinical program at Valparaiso University School of Law.
Publications
- Women’s Work: A Lutheran Feminist Critique,
4 U. ST. THOMAS L.J. 405 (2008).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - A Home of Its Own: the Role of Poverty Law in Furthering Law Schools' Mission,
34 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1173 (2007).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - No More Deaths: On Conscience, Civil Disobedience, and a New Role for Truth Commissions,
75 U.M.K.C. L. REV. 401 (2007).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - Recovering the Face-to-Face in American Immigration Law,
16 S. CAL. REV. LAW & SOC. JUST. 319 (2007).
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- In Praise of Contextuality-Justice O'Connor and the Establishment Clause,
29 HAMLINE L. REV. 7 (2006).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Lessons Unlearned: Women Offenders, the Ethics of Care, and the Promise of Restorative Justice,
33 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 487 (2006).
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- Sherbert v. Verner and Viewpoint Discrimination, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES, (Paul Finkelman, ed., 2006).
- Conscience and Commitment: A Problem for the Modern Church, in GOSPEL BLAZES IN THE DARK: A FESTIVAL OF WRITING SPARKED IN HONOR OF EDWARD HENRY SCHROEDER (Steven C. Kuhl, B. Sherman Lee & Robin J. Morgan, eds., 2006).
- Introduction, Symposium, AALS Professional Responsibility Section Essay Contest: Ethics in the Year 2050,
15 WIDENER L. REV. 235 (2006).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Against Idols: The Court as Symbol-maker or Rhetorical Institution?,
8 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 367 (2006).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - Can a Judge Be a Good Politician? Judicial Elections from a Virtue Ethics Approach,
70 MO. L. REV. 433 (2005).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Pilgrimage or Exodus: Responding to Faculty Faith Diversity at Religious Law Schools,
81 U. DET. MERCY L. REV. 719 (2004).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - Virtuous Judges and Electoral Politics: A Contradiction?,
67 ALB. L. REV. 769 (2004).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - “Too Cheap Work for Any But Us”: Toward a Theory and Practice of Good Child Labor,
35 RUTGERS L.J. 1035 (2004).
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PDF - Voices Protesting and Affirming: Engaging the Culture of Law,
1 U. ST. THOMAS L.J. 307 (2004).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - A Peace Proposal for the Same-Sex Marriage Wars: Restoring the Household to Its Proper Place,
10 WM. & MARY J. WOMEN & L. 195 (2004).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Not Mere Rhetoric: On Wasting or Claiming your Legacy, Justice Scalia,
34 U. TOL. L. REV. 425 (2003).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - We Must Spare No Diligence: The State and Childhood Education, in CHURCH AND STATE: LUTHERAN PERSPECTIVES (John Stumme & Robert Tuttle, eds., 2003).
- A Word-and-Flesh Profession: A Response to White and Brueggemann,
53 MERCER L. REV. 1035 (2002).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Is Tom Shaffer a Covenantal Lawyer?,
77 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 705 (2002).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Making our Home in the Works of God, in CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON LEGAL THOUGHT (Michael McConnell, Robert Cochran, and Angela Carmella, eds., 2001) (with Patrick R. Keifert).
- Remembering Mrs. Murphy: A Remedies Approach to the Conflict between Gay/Lesbian Renters and Religious Landlords,
29 CAP. U. L. REV. 383 (2001).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Wondering after Babel: Power, Freedom and Ideology, in U.S. SUPREME COURT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE RELIGION CLAUSES, IN LAW AND RELIGION (Rex Ahdar, ed., 2001).
- Gender, Justice and the Left Hand of God: A Lutheran Perspective,
9 S. CAL. REV. L. & WOMEN'S STUD. 45 (2000).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - The Justice Who Wouldn't Be Lutheran: Toward Borrowing the Wisdom of Faith Traditions,
46 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 643 (2000).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Searching for the Crown of Feathers: An Essay on Psychology, Ethics and Truth in Constitutional Law,
9 S. CAL. INTERDISC. L.J. 381 (2000).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Unmasking the Stranger: American Welfare Residency Rules and the Encounter with the Other,
5 LAW TEXT CULTURE 223 (2000).
- Rediscovering the Role of Religion in the Lives of Lawyers and Those They Represent: Remarks,
26 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 917 (1999).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline - Keeping Faith: An Essay on the Right to Travel, the Poor and the Ethical Demands of Constitutional Stare Decisis,
5 LOY. POVERTY L.J. 27 (1999).
Westlaw - Face-ing the Other: An Ethics of Encounter and Solidarity in Legal Services Practice,
67 FORDHAM L. REV. 2071 (1999).
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- Five Modern Notions in Search of an Author: The Ideology of the Intimate Society in Constitutional Speech Law,
30 U. TOL. L. REV. 251 (1999).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Jocasta Undone: Constitutional Courts in the Midst of Life and Death, in CONSTITUTIONAL STUPIDITIES AND CONSTITUTIONAL TRAGEDIES (Sanford Levinson and William Eskridge, eds. 1998).
- Necessary Legends: The National Equal Justice Library and the Importance of Poverty Lawyers’ History,
17 ST. LOUIS U. PUB. L. REV. 265 (1998).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - New Wine, New Bottles: Private Property Metaphors and Public Forum Speech,
71 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. 217 (1997).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Constitutional and Legal Aspects of Educational Choice, in TWO ESSAYS ON EDUCATIONAL CHOICE: LUTHERAN PERSPECTIVES (1996).
- H. Jefferson Powell on the American Constitutional Tradition: A Conversation,
72 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 11 (1996) (participant).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Can Wrongs Be Rights?: Why a Conservative Might Support Legal Protections for Gay and Lesbian People, 14 WORD & WORLD 270 (1994).
- Gentleman as Hero: Atticus Finch and the Lonely Path,
10 J.L. & RELIGION 303 (1993-1994).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Contract, Gift, or Covenant?: A Review of the Law of Overpayments,
36 LOY. L. REV. 89 (1991).
Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Home at Last: Poverty Law Returns to the Academy,
34 LOY. L. REV. 1 (1988).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Equality Versus the Right to Choose Associates: A Critique of Hannah Arendt's View of the Supreme Court's Dilemma,
49 U. PITT. L. REV. 143 (1987).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - An Offer She Can't Refuse: When Fundamental Rights and Conditions on Government Benefits Collide,
31 VILL. L. REV. 833 (1986).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - The Minnesota Revenue Recapture Act: Little Brother Makes Good?,
7 HAMLINE J. PUB. L. & POL’Y 1 (1986).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Litigating against Poverty: Legal Services and Group Representation,
45 OHIO ST. L.J. 1 (1984) (with Larry May).
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