Sandra Day O'Connor Professor of Law and Professor of Government
Areas of Specialization
Civil Rights Law; Law and Politics; Constitutional Law
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Joined the faculty in 1987. Served as Assistant General Counsel for the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights and Project Director for the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies.
Author of Shaping Constitutional Values: The Supreme Court, Elected Government and the Abortion Dispute and articles in the Chicago, Columbia, Stanford, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, California, William & Mary, and Yale law reviews. Co-author of Political Dynamics of Constitutional Law, The Democratic Constitution, and The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court. Editor of the book series, Constitutional Conflicts, published by Duke U. Press.
Publications from 1987
Associations' Freedom v. Freedom of Association: Another Look at All-Male Clubs, Neal Devins
(1986-1987 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 392-393 (1987))Centralization in Education: Why Johnny Can't Spell Bureaucracy, Neal Devins
(75 California Law Review 759-784 (1987))Is Discrimination Against Jews "Race Discrimination?", Neal Devins
(1986-1987 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 306-307 (1987))Regulation of Government Agencies Through Limitation Riders, Neal Devins
(1987 Duke Law Journal 456-500)Publications from 1986
Book Review of The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy, Neal Devins
(54 George Washington Law Review 661-670 (1986))Defining Effective Civil Rights Enforcement in Education, Neal Devins
(86 Columbia Law Review 1093-1102 (1986))On the Limits of Court-ordered Social Change: A Critical Look at Dimond's Beyond Busing, Neal Devins
(1986 American Bar Foundation Research Journal 559-569)Righting Past Wrongs: When Affirmative Action May Be Reverse Discrimination, Neal Devins
(1985-1986 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 105-106 (1986))The Possible Final Word on Employment Discrimination Relief, Neal Devins
(1985-1986 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 303-305 (1986))Publications from 1985
Accommodating Employees' Sabbaths: Is it the Government's Job?, Neal Devins
(1984-1985 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 94-96 (1985))A Constitutional Right to Home Instruction?, Neal Devins
(62 Washington University Law Quarterly 435-476 (1985))Book Review of The Second American Revolution, Neal Devins
(11 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 505-521 (1985))Christmas Without Creches?: Can Private Nativity Scenes Be Banned from Public Land?, Neal Devins
(1984-1985 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 265-267 (1985))In re Parochiaid: Church-State Wall of Separation Scrutinized-Again, Neal Devins
(1984-1985 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 195-197 (1985))Religious Symbols and the Establishment Clause, Neal Devins
(27 Journal of Church & State 19-46 (1985))Residency Requirements for Attorneys: Home Is Where the License Is?, Neal Devins
(1984-1985 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 64-66 (1985))The Trouble with Jaycees, Neal Devins
(34 Catholic University Law Review 901-918 (1985))Publications from 1984
A New Look at an Old Association: Will Today's Women Be Tomorrow's Jaycees?, Neal Devins
(1983-1984 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 535-537 (1984))Are Residential Quotas Constitutional?, Neal Devins
(1983-1984 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 309-311 (1984))Bob Jones University v. U.S.: A Political Analysis, Neal Devins
(1 Journal of Law and Politics 403-421 (1984))Diminished Luster in Escambia County?, Neal Devins
(1983-1984 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 251-254 (1984))The 1965 Voting Rights Act: Some Wrongs Still Not Righted, Neal Devins
(1983-1984 Preview United States Supreme Court Cases 81-82 (1984))What Standards Apply When Freedoms Collide?, Neal Devins
(1983-1984 Preview United States Supreme Court Case 317-319 (1984))Who Is Injured when Racially Discriminatory Private Schools are Tax-Exempt?, Neal Devins
(1983-1984 Preview United States Supreme Court Case 357-359 (1984))Your Money or Your Wife's?: Social Security Changes Considered, Neal Devins
(1983-1984 Preview United States Supreme Court Case 195-197 (1984))New Federalism in Education: The Meaning of the Chicago School Desegregation, Neal Devins and James B. Stedman
(59 Notre Dame Law Review 1243-1292 (1984))Publications from 1983
Integration and Local Politics, Neal Devins
(73 The Public Interest 175-180 (1983))State Regulation of Christian Schools, Neal Devins
(10 Journal of Legislation 351-381 (1983))Tax Exemptions for Racially Discriminatory Private Schools: A Legislative Proposal, Neal Devins
(20 Harvard Journal on Legislation 153-178 (1983))