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.
Articles
The Mystery of Life in the Laboratory of Democracy: Personal Autonomy in State Law, Cleveland State Law Review (2012)
Debates about personal autonomy today play major roles in controversial legal and political debates. Arguments...
Empathy’s White Elephant: Responding to the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Without Denigrating the Poor, Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (2011)
Empathy in judicial foreclosures is the new coverture. President Obama’s judicial empathy standard aims to...
A Review of Jean Porter's Ministers of the Law, Journal of Faith & the Academy (2011)
Porter would have benefitted from examining the work of natural law scholars who have gone...
Resurrecting the Bogeyman: The Curious Forms of the Substantial Burden Test in RLUIPA, Real Estate Law Journal (2011)
In 2000 Congress revived strict scrutiny review of regulations that substantially burden religious land use...
The (Contingent) Value of Autonomy and the Reflexivity of (Some) Basic Goods, Journal Jurisprudence (2010)
Many of the legal and policy issues about which people today get most exercised turn...