Adam MacLeod is an Associate Professor of Law at Faulkner University, Jones School of Law, where he has taught since 2007. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Gordon College (MA) and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board. After law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Justice Christopher Armstrong and Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and to Chief Judge Lewis Babcock of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Professor MacLeod litigated and tried cases in and around Boston while in private practice. Professor MacLeod writes about jurisprudence and property law. His works have appeared in the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, the BYU Journal of Public Law, the Journal Jurisprudence, the Idaho Law Review, and other publications. He teaches Property and co-teaches Law & Public Policy with his wife Katie, a policy analyst and graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. A former and founding member of the Pneuma Brass Quintet in Boston, Professor MacLeod is an avid musician, runner, cyclist, skier, hiker, and Notre Dame partisan.
Civil Rights
A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting RLUIPA Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, ExpressO (2009)
Thsi paper grapples with the difficult question how best to interpret the Religious Land Use...
Constitutional Law
A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting RLUIPA Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, ExpressO (2009)
Thsi paper grapples with the difficult question how best to interpret the Religious Land Use...
The Search for Moral Neutrality in Same-Sex Marriage Decisions, 23 BYU J. Pub. L. (2008)
In recent months, the California Supreme Court struck down the state’s conjugal marriage and domestic...
Jurisprudence
The (Contingent) Value of Autonomy and the Reflexivity of (Some) Basic Goods, Journal Jurisprudence (2009)
Many of the legal and policy issues about which people today get most exercised turn...
A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting RLUIPA Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, ExpressO (2009)
Thsi paper grapples with the difficult question how best to interpret the Religious Land Use...
The Search for Moral Neutrality in Same-Sex Marriage Decisions, 23 BYU J. Pub. L. (2008)
In recent months, the California Supreme Court struck down the state’s conjugal marriage and domestic...
The Law as Bard: Extolling a Culture’s Virtues, Exposing Its Vices, and Telling Its Story, The Journal Jurisprudence (2008)
Our cultural forebears appointed a rather singular individual to preserve for their children a record...
Land Use Planning
A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting RLUIPA Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, ExpressO (2009)
Thsi paper grapples with the difficult question how best to interpret the Religious Land Use...
Legislation
A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting RLUIPA Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, ExpressO (2009)
Thsi paper grapples with the difficult question how best to interpret the Religious Land Use...
Property-Personal and Real
A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting RLUIPA Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, ExpressO (2009)
Thsi paper grapples with the difficult question how best to interpret the Religious Land Use...
A Gift Worth Dying For?: Debating the Volitional Nature of Suicide in the Law of Personal Property, Idaho L. Rev. (2008)
This article examines the debate in personal property law over the question whether suicide is...
Public Law and Legal Theory
A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting RLUIPA Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, ExpressO (2009)
Thsi paper grapples with the difficult question how best to interpret the Religious Land Use...
The Search for Moral Neutrality in Same-Sex Marriage Decisions, 23 BYU J. Pub. L. (2008)
In recent months, the California Supreme Court struck down the state’s conjugal marriage and domestic...
Religion
A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting RLUIPA Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, ExpressO (2009)
Thsi paper grapples with the difficult question how best to interpret the Religious Land Use...