ADAM J. MACLEOD
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Gordon College; J.D., Notre Dame Law School
Adam MacLeod joined the law school faculty in 2007 as an Associate Professor. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Gordon College (MA) and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board. After law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Justice Christopher Armstrong and Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and to Chief Judge Lewis Babcock of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. He litigated and tried cases in and around Boston while in private practice.
Professor MacLeod writes about jurisprudence and property law. He teaches Property. A former and founding member of the Pneuma Brass Quintet in Boston, he is currently the trumpeter for Christ Church in Montgomery, where he attends with his wife and daughter. He is an avid musician, runner, cyclist, skier, hiker, and Notre Dame partisan.
Publications
A Non-Fatal Collision: Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, 42 Urb. Law. ___ (2010).
The (Contingent) Value of Autonomy and the Reflexivity of (Some) Basic Goods, 5 J. Juris ___ (2009).
A Gift Worth Dying For?: Debating the Volitional Nature of Suicide in Personal Property Law, 45 Idaho L. Rev. 93 (2008).
The Search for Moral Neutrality in Same-Sex Marriage Decisions, 23 BYU J. Pub. L. 1 (2008).
The Law as Bard: Extolling a Culture's Virtues, Exposing Its Vices, and Telling Its Story, 1 J. Juris. 11 (2008) (symposium).
All for One: A Review of Victim-centric Justifications for Criminal Punishment, 13 Berkeley J. Crim. L. 31 (2008).
The Groningen Protocol: Legalized Infanticide in the Netherlands and Why it Should Not be Done in the United States, 10 Mich. St. J. Med. & L. 557 (2006).
Untangling the Conflict Rules, Disqualification of Counsel, 32 Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly 1435 (March 8, 2004).