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Robert O. Bentley Professor of Law, Emeritus

Professor Samuel W. Calhoun joined Washington and Lee in 1978. His teaching focuses on contracts, legal writing, commercial transactions, and the abortion controversy. He received the Law Alumni Association Fellowship in Teaching Excellence in 2003-04 and the John W. Elrod Law Alumni Association Fellowship in Teaching Excellence in 2007-08.
Professor Calhoun's articles have appeared in a variety of law and historical journals. He is admitted to practice in Georgia.

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About Samuel W. Calhoun

Professor Samuel W. Calhoun joined Washington and Lee in 1978. His teaching focuses on contracts, legal writing, commercial transactions, and the abortion controversy. He received the Law Alumni Association Fellowship in Teaching Excellence in 2003-04 and the John W. Elrod Law Alumni Association Fellowship in Teaching Excellence in 2007-08.
Professor Calhoun's articles have appeared in a variety of law and historical journals. He is admitted to practice in Georgia.

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If Separation of Church and State Doesn’t Demand Separating Religion from Politics, Does Christian Doctrine Require It? (Samuel W. Calhoun) Washington and Lee Law Review Online (2019)

This Essay responds to comments by Wayne Barnes, Ian Huyett, and David Smolin on my prior Article, Separation of Church and State: Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Show It Was Never ...

Separation of Church and State: Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Show It Was Never Intended to Separate Religion from Politics (Samuel W. Calhoun) Washington and Lee Law Review Online (2018)

This Essay argues that it’s perfectly fine for religious citizens to openly bring their faith-based values to public policy disputes. Part II demonstrates that the Founders, exemplified by Thomas Jefferson, never intended to separate religion ...

Justice Lewis F. Powell's Baffling Vote in Roe v. Wade (Samuel W. Calhoun) Washington and Lee Law Review (2014)

May the President Appropriately Invoke God? Evaluating the Embryonic Stem Cell Vetoes (Samuel W. Calhoun) Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion (2008)

President George W. Bush twice vetoed measures to provide federal funds for embryonic stem cell research requiring the destruction of human embryos. Each veto was premised in part upon his religious beliefs. President Bush’s reliance ...

Grounding Normative Assertions: Arthur Leff's Still Irrefutable, But Incomplete, "Sez Who?" Critique (Samuel W. Calhoun) Journal of Law & Religion (2005)

The late Professor Arthur Leff believed that standard methods for grounding normative assertions fail to provide a solid foundation for moral judgment because none provides a satisfactory answer to what Leff called the grand 'sez ...

Is It Possible To Take Both Fetal Life And Women Seriously? Professor Laurence Tribe And His Reviewers (Samuel W. Calhoun and Andrea E. Sexton) Washington and Lee Law Review (1992)

Justice Lewis F. Powell's Baffling Vote in Roe v. Wade (Samuel W. Calhoun) Washington and Lee Law Review (2014)

Why Strive for Balance in a Roe Symposium? (Samuel W. Calhoun) Washington and Lee Law Review (2014)

Stopping Philadelphia Abortion Provider Kermit Gosnell and Preventing Others Like Him: An Outcome that Both Pro-Choicers and Pro-Lifers Should Support (Samuel W. Calhoun) Villanova Law Review (2012)

This article focuses on three of the atrocities committed by Philadelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell: his shameful, destructive treatment of women; his brutal killing of born-alive infants; and his performance of illegal post-viability abortions. Pro-choicers ...

"Partial-Birth Abortion" Is Not Abortion: Carhart II's Fundamental Misapplication of Roe (Samuel W. Calhoun) Mississippi Law Journal (2010)

In explaining his constitutional objection to Wisconsin’s partial-birth abortion ban, Judge Richard Posner contrasts killing during “normal labor” with partial-birth abortion. The former can be constitutionally prohibited, but the latter cannot. Why the distinction? For ...

(reviewing Elizabeth Mensch and Alan Freeman, The Politics of Virtue: Is Abortion Debatable (1993)) (Samuel W. Calhoun) Journal of Law & Religion (2001)

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Valuing Intrauterine Life (Samuel W. Calhoun) Regent University Law Review (1997)

Impartiality in the Classroom: A Personal Account of a Struggle to be Evenhanded in Teaching About Abortion (Samuel W. Calhoun) Journal of Legal Education (1995)

Is It Possible To Take Both Fetal Life And Women Seriously? Professor Laurence Tribe And His Reviewers (Samuel W. Calhoun and Andrea E. Sexton) Washington and Lee Law Review (1992)

Inappropriate for Establishment Clause Scrutiny: Reflections on Mary Nobles Hancock’s, God Save the United States and this Honorable County Board of Commissioners: Lund, Bormuth, and the Fight Over Legislative Prayer (Samuel W. Calhoun) Washington and Lee Law Review (2019)

This Response to Mary Nobles Hancock’s Note, after noting the complexity of the issues she presents, briefly comments on Ms. Hancock’s analysis, which focuses on how current Supreme Court doctrine should be applied to legislative ...

If Separation of Church and State Doesn’t Demand Separating Religion from Politics, Does Christian Doctrine Require It? (Samuel W. Calhoun) Washington and Lee Law Review Online (2019)

This Essay responds to comments by Wayne Barnes, Ian Huyett, and David Smolin on my prior Article, Separation of Church and State: Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Show It Was Never ...

Separation of Church and State: Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Show It Was Never Intended to Separate Religion from Politics (Samuel W. Calhoun) Washington and Lee Law Review Online (2018)

This Essay argues that it’s perfectly fine for religious citizens to openly bring their faith-based values to public policy disputes. Part II demonstrates that the Founders, exemplified by Thomas Jefferson, never intended to separate religion ...

Abraham Lincoln's Religion: The Case for His Ultimate Belief in a Personal, Sovereign God. (Samuel W. Calhoun and Lucas E. Morel) Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association (2012)

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Getting the Framers Wrong: A Response to Professor Geoffrey Stone (Samuel W. Calhoun) UCLA Law Review Discourse (2009)

Professor Geoffrey Stone’s Essay, The World of the Framers: A Christian Nation?, seeks to state “the truth about . . . what [the Framers] believed, and about what they aspired to when they created this ...

May the President Appropriately Invoke God? Evaluating the Embryonic Stem Cell Vetoes (Samuel W. Calhoun) Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion (2008)

President George W. Bush twice vetoed measures to provide federal funds for embryonic stem cell research requiring the destruction of human embryos. Each veto was premised in part upon his religious beliefs. President Bush’s reliance ...

Grounding Normative Assertions: Arthur Leff's Still Irrefutable, But Incomplete, "Sez Who?" Critique (Samuel W. Calhoun) Journal of Law & Religion (2005)

The late Professor Arthur Leff believed that standard methods for grounding normative assertions fail to provide a solid foundation for moral judgment because none provides a satisfactory answer to what Leff called the grand 'sez ...

(reviewing Elizabeth Mensch and Alan Freeman, The Politics of Virtue: Is Abortion Debatable (1993)) (Samuel W. Calhoun) Journal of Law & Religion (2001)

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Conviction Without Imposition: A Response to Professor Greenawalt (Samuel W. Calhoun) Journal of Law & Religion (1992)

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Misreading the Judeo-Christian Tradition and the Law: A Response to Professor Smolin (Samuel W. Calhoun) Universit of Dayton Law Review (1990)

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Abraham Lincoln's Religion: The Case for His Ultimate Belief in a Personal, Sovereign God. (Samuel W. Calhoun and Lucas E. Morel) Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association (2012)

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