Professor Emeritus Brownstein, Former Senior Associate Dean Amar Analyze Sixth Circuit Decision

A recent Sixth Circuit decision, Meriweather v. Hartop, was analyzed by Professor Emeritus Alan Brownstein and University of Illinois College of Law Dean and former UC Davis Law Senior Associate Dean Vikram Amar in an op-ed published April 16 by Justia. The case involves a philosophy professor who was punished by the public university where he works for failing to comply with a policy requiring teachers to address students by the students’ preferred pronouns. Read the analysis.

Professor Brownstein, a nationally recognized constitutional law scholar, taught Constitutional Law, Law and Religion, and Torts at UC Davis School of Law for more than 30 years. Before his retirement from full-time teaching, he held the Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality.