Michael Anthony Lawrence is a Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate & International Programs at the Michigan State University College of Law. Professor Lawrence was a Fulbright Scholar in Beijing, China in 2005; and he frequently teaches short courses on various legal topics in other countries around the world. His primary research focus is constitutional law. Professor Lawrence received his law degree cum laude from the University of Wisconsin, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Law Review. Prior to joining the MSU College of Law faculty in 1994, Professor Lawrence practiced at the law firm of Baker & McKenzie in Washington, D.C.
Articles
Rescuing the Fourteenth Amendment Privileges or Immunities Clause: How “Attrition of Parliamentary Processes” Begat Accidental Ambiguity; How Ambiguity Begat SlaughterHouse, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (2009)
This essay addresses a topic of great academic and practical interest currently facing the Supreme...
Reading Tea Leaves in Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life: Hope for a Buckley Evolution?, Tulsa Law Review (2008)
During its 2006-07 Term the U.S. Supreme Court decided Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right...
Government as Liberty's Servant: The "Reasonable Time, Place and Manner" Standard of Review for All Government Restrictions on Liberty Interests, Louisiana Law Review (2007)
This essay suggests that the American legal system fails to do proper justice to the...
Second Amendment Incorporation Through the Fourteenth Amendment Privileges or Immunities and Due Process Clauses, Missouri Law Review (2007)
The second amendment, alternately maligned over the years as the black sheep of the constitutional...
Reviving a Natural Right: The Freedom of Autonomy, Willamette Law Review (2006)
This article explores the historical foundations of the individual rights of equality and free choice...
Books
Radicals in Their Own Time: Four Hundred Years of Struggle for Liberty and Equal Justice in America [Introduction & Selected Chapter Extracts] (2010)
This book explores the lives of five individuals whose lifetimes, laid beginning to end, together...
Contributions to Books
Common Property and Natural Resource Management: A Michigan Perspective, THE ECONOMICS OF LEGAL RELATIONSHIPS, vol.5 (1999)
In the thirty years since the publication of Garrett Hardin’s classic essay, The Tragedy of...