Antiterrorism Measures and Protection of Civil Liberties in the Unite States
October 22, 2009 11:00am
Room 401 of KoGuan Law School
Minhang Campus, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Gregory P. Magarian
Professor Gregory P. Magarian is a well-known expert in free speech, the law of politics, and law and religion. He has written about a variety of topics in constitutional law, including free speech theory and doctrine, media regulation, regulation of political parties, the relationship between church and state, and substantive due process. As part of an ABA project, he led a team of faculty examining the work of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan during the nomination process. A frequent presenter at conferences home and abroad, he has published his scholarship widely in various law reviews. Professor Magarian has taught at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, as part of the law school's semester exchange partnership and served on the law school's Summer Institute for Global Justice faculty at the Universityof Utrechtin The Netherlands. Before becoming a law professor, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, as well as for the Hon. Louis Oberdorfer, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Professor Magarian also practiced law for five years with the Washington, D.C.firm Jenner & Block as a litigation associate.