Nelson Tebbe’s scholarship focuses on the relationship between religious traditions and constitutional law, both the United States and South Africa. In the domestic context, an article that recently appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review argues that the government ought to be able to single out religious entities for denials of support, subject to certain limits imposed by the First Amendment. With respect to South Africa, he has written several articles on the tension between African customary law and individual rights. One of these was published in The Georgetown Law Journal and another is forthcoming in The Journal of Religion. He teaches Constitutional Law, Law and Religion, and Professional Responsibility. Professor Tebbe is Co-Chair of the Nominating Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee, of the Law and Religion Section of the American Association of Law Schools. He came to Brooklyn Law School from St. John’s University School of Law, where he received a Dean’s Teaching Award. Before teaching, Tebbe clerked for Judge John M. Walker, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced law at the American Civil Liberties Union and at Davis Polk & Wardwell. A graduate of Yale Law School, Professor Tebbe also holds a Ph.D. with distinction from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cape Town from 1993 to 1994.
Articles
Condemning Religion: The Political Economy of RLUIPA (forthcoming) (with Christopher Serkin), Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 127 (2009)
Excluding Religion, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1263 (2008)
This Article considers a pressing issue in the constitutional law of religious freedom: whether government...