Carl Esbeck

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Carl H. Esbeck is the Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law. He joined the law faculty in 1981. He has published in the areas of church-state relations and civil rights. He is also credited as the primary author of the original charitable choice language in the 1996 welfare reform bill.[1][2][3]

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[edit] Biography

Prior to teaching, Carl Esbeck had an illustrious career as an attorney. Among his accomplishments, is that he ran a public interest firm for two years.

Carl Esbeck also enjoys alliteration and has extensive knowledge of state nicknames.

[edit] Scholarship

Professor Esbeck regularly researches and publishes in the areas of religious liberties and civil rights.

[edit] Representative publications

Governance and the Religion Question: Voluntaryism, Disestablishment, and America's Church-State Proposition, 48 Journal of Church & State 202 (Spring 2006)

The Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations to Staff On a Religious Basis, CENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE (Sept, 2004). with Stanley W. Carlson-Thies & Ronald J. Sider

Religious Organizations in the United States, A Study of Identity, Liberty, and the Law, (Carolina Academic Press, 2004). contributed 2 chapters to this book - Regulation of Religious Organizations via Governmental Financial Assistance and Charitable Choice and the Critics.

The Establishment Clause as a Structural Restraint: Validations and Ramifications, 18 JOURNAL OF LAW & POLITICS 445 (2002).

Statement Before the United States House of Representatives Concerning Charitable Choice and the Community Solutions Act, 16 NOTRE DAME JOURNAL OF LAW, ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 567 (2002).

Myths, Miscues and Misconceptions: No-Aid Separationism and the Establishment Clause, 13 NOTRE DAME JOURNAL OF LAW, ETHICS & PUBLIC POLICY 285 (1999).

On Rights and Restraints, 94 LIBERTY 22-29 (March/April 1999).

The Neutral Treatment of Religion and Faith-Based Social Service Providers: Charitable Choice and Its Critics, in WELFARE REFORM AND FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS 173 (Derek Davis & Barry Hankins editors, 1999).

The Establishment Clause as a Structural Restraint on Governmental Power, 84 IOWA L. REV. 1-113 (1998)

[edit] Teaching

Professor Esbeck teaches Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Religious Liberty, Civil Rights, and a Seminar on the Foundations of the American Constitution.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Joseph P. Hester (2003). The Ten Commandments: A Handbook of Religious, Legal and Social Issues. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0786414197. 
  2. ^ MR Robin Parry, Craig G. Bartholomew, Andrew West (2004). The Futures of Evangelicalism: Issues and Prospects. Kregel Publications. ISBN 0825420229. 
  3. ^ Amy E. Black, Douglas L. Koopman, David K. Ryden (2004). Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-based Initiatives. Georgetown University. 

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