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Marie Failinger

Professor
Email: 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.

 

Selected Publications

  • Women’s Work: A Lutheran Feminist Critique, 4 U. ST. THOMAS L.J. 405 (2008).
  • A Home of Its Own: the Role of Poverty Law in Furthering Law Schools' Mission, 34 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1173 (2007). PDF
  • No More Deaths: On Conscience, Civil Disobedience, and a New Role for Truth Commissions, 75 U.M.K.C. L. REV. 401 (2007).
  • Recovering the Face-to-Face in American Immigration Law, 16 S. CAL. REV. LAW & SOC. JUST. 319 (2007).
  • In Praise of Contextuality-Justice O'Connor and the Establishment Clause, 29 HAMLINE L. REV. 7 (2006). PDF
  • Lessons Unlearned: Women Offenders, the Ethics of Care, and the Promise of Restorative Justice, 33 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 487 (2006).
  • Sherbert v. Verner and Viewpoint Discrimination, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES, (Paul Finkelman, ed., Routledge, 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 (Crossings Publishing, 2006).
  • Introduction, Symposium, AALS Professional Responsibility Section Essay Contest: Ethics in the Year 2050, 15 WIDENER L. REV. 235 (2006). PDF
  • Against Idols: The Court as Symbol-maker or Rhetorical Institution?, 8 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 367 (2006).
  • Can a Judge Be a Good Politician? Judicial Elections from a Virtue Ethics Approach, 70 MO. L. REV. 433 (2005). PDF
  • Pilgrimage or Exodus: Responding to Faculty Faith Diversity at Religious Law Schools, 81 U. DET. MERCY L. REV. 719 (2004).
  • Virtuous Judges and Electoral Politics: A Contradiction?, 67 ALB. L. REV. 769 (2004). PDF
  • “Too Cheap Work for Any But Us”: Toward a Theory and Practice of Good Child Labor, 35 RUTGERS L.J. 1035 (2004). PDF
  • Voices Protesting and Affirming: Engaging the Culture of Law, 1 U. ST. THOMAS L.J. 307 (2004).
  • A Peace Proposal for the Same-Sex Marriage Wars: Restoring the Household to Its Proper Place, 10 WM. & MARY J. WOMEN & L. 195 (2004). PDF
  • Not Mere Rhetoric: On Wasting or Claiming your Legacy, Justice Scalia, 34 U. TOL. L. REV. 425 (2003). PDF
  • We Must Spare No Diligence: The State and Childhood Education, in CHURCH AND STATE: LUTHERAN PERSPECTIVES (John Stumme & Robert Tuttle, eds., Augsburg Fortress Press, 2003).
  • A Word-and-Flesh Profession: A Response to White and Brueggemann, 53 MERCER L. REV. 1035 (2002). PDF
  • Is Tom Shaffer a Covenantal Lawyer?, 77 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 705 (2002). PDF
  • Making our Home in the Works of God, in CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON LEGAL THOUGHT (Michael McConnell, Robert Cochran, and Angela Carmella, eds., Yale University Press, 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). 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., Dartmouth/Ashgate Press 2001).
  • Gender, Justice and the Left Hand of God: A Lutheran Perspective, 9 S. CAL. REV. L. & WOMEN'S STUD. 45 (2000). PDF
  • The Justice Who Wouldn't Be Lutheran: Toward Borrowing the Wisdom of Faith Traditions, 46 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 643 (2000). 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). 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).
  • 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).
  • Face-ing the Other: An Ethics of Encounter and Solidarity in Legal Services Practice, 67 FORDHAM L. REV. 2071 (1999).
  • 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). PDF
  • Jocasta Undone: Constitutional Courts in the Midst of Life and Death, in CONSTITUTIONAL STUPIDITIES AND CONSTITUTIONAL TRAGEDIES (Sanford Levinson and William Eskridge, eds. New York University Press, 1998).
  • Necessary Legends: The National Equal Justice Library and the Importance of Poverty Lawyers’ History, 17 ST. LOUIS U. PUB. L. REV. 265 (1998). PDF
  • New Wine, New Bottles: Private Property Metaphors and Public Forum Speech, 71 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. 217 (1997). PDF
  • CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICE, IN TWO ESSAYS ON EDUCATIONAL CHOICE: LUTHERAN PERSPECTIVES (Department for Studies of the Division for Church in Society, 1996).
  • H. Jefferson Powell on the American Constitutional Tradition: A Conversation, 72 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 11 (1996) (participant). PDF
  • Can Wrongs Be Rights?: Why a Conservative Might Support Legal Protections for Gay and Lesbian People, 14 WORLD 270 (1994).
  • Gentleman as Hero: Atticus Finch and the Lonely Path, 10 J.L. & RELIGION 303 (1993-1994). PDF
  • Contract, Gift, or Covenant?: A Review of the Law of Overpayments, 36 LOY. L. REV. 89 (1991). PDF
  • Home at Last: Poverty Law Returns to the Academy, 34 Loyola Law Review 1 (1988) 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). PDF
  • An Offer She Can't Refuse: When Fundamental Rights and Conditions on Government Benefits Collide, 31 VILL. L. REV. 833 (1986). PDF
  • The Minnesota Revenue Recapture Act: Little Brother Makes Good?, 7 HAMLINE J. PUB. L. & POL’Y 1 (1986). PDF
  • Litigating against Poverty: Legal Services and Group Representation, 45 OHIO ST. L.J. 1 (1984) (with Larry May). PDF

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