Professor Nahmod is a well-known expert on constitutional law, civil rights and the
law of Section 1983. He is the author of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Litigation: The
Law of Section 1983 (4th ed. 1997, updated annually; 3 vols.); A Section 1983 Civil
Rights Anthology (1993); a casebook, Constitutional Torts (3d ed. 2010, with Wells and
Eaton) (forthcoming); and numerous law review articles. He has argued civil rights cases
in the U.S. Supreme Court and many other federal courts. In addition, he lectures
regularly on civil rights matters to federal judges and attorneys throughout the country.
He also lectures to lay groups on constitutional law. 

Professor Nahmod graduated from the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. He
practiced with a corporate law firm and was a legal services staff attorney before
entering academia. He also was a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School, where he earned
an LL.M. After joining Chicago-Kent, he served as associate dean for three years, and was
named IIT Distinguished Professor in 1992. 

Professor Nahmod has served as chair of the Section of Civil Rights and the Section on
Law and Religion of the Association of American Law Schools. In addition, he received a
Master in Religious Studies degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School in June
1996. In 2001, he received the Jefferson Fordham Lifetime Achievement Award for his work
in section 1983 jurisprudence from the American Bar Association's section on State
and Local Government Law. He founded and co-directs the Institute for Law and the
Humanities. 

Professor Nahmod blogs on section 1983, constitutional law and other law-related topics
at nahmodlaw.com.

Articles

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Constitutional Torts, Over-Deterrence and Supervisory Liability After Iqbal (forthcoming 2010), Lewis & Clark Law Review (2010)
My forthcoming Article is divided into the following parts. In Part I, I survey relevant...
 

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Academic Freedom and the Post-Garcetti Blues, First Amendment Law Review (2008)
 

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Constitutional Education for The People Themselves, Chicago-Kent Law Review (2006)
 

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The Pledge as Sacred Political Ritual, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (2005)
 

Books

Contributions to Books

The Sacred and the Obscene in the Public Square, Religion and the Law in the Global Village (1999)
 

The Sacred Flag and the First Amendment, The Constitution and the Flag (1993)