ANDY G. OLREE
Professor of Law
B.B.A., Harding University; J.D., University of Chicago Law School
Andy Olree joined the faculty of Faulkner University's Jones School of Law in 2005. He received the J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a staff member on the University of Chicago Legal Forum. At Chicago he also served as a research assistant for Professor Richard Epstein and conducted directed research under Professor (and former federal appellate judge) Michael W. McConnell.
Perhaps best known for his work analyzing the origins and implications of the First Amendment's religion clauses, Professor Olree has additionally published in the areas of freedom of speech, U.S. legal history, and Christian legal theology. His articles have appeared in several leading journals including Northwestern University Law Review, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, and Connecticut Law Review, and his short piece for Alabama Lawyer on specialty license plates has been quoted favorably by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His latest book, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, is tentatively entitled James Madison and the Battle Against Religious Establishments. He is also the author of The Choice Principle: The Biblical Case for Legal Toleration, published by University Press of America in 2006.
Professor Olree regularly teaches Constitutional Law I and II, as well as various seminars on legal theology and civil liberties.
Publications
Identifying Government Speech, 42 Conn. L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming 2009).
The Continuting Threshold Test for Free Exercise Claims, 17 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 103 (2008).
James Madison and Legislative Chaplains, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 145 (2008).
Specialty License Plates: Look Who's Talking in the Sixth Circuit, 68 Ala. Lawyer 213 (2007).
Government as God's Agent: A Reconsideration of Romans 12 and 13, 8 Stone-Campbell J. 181 (2005).
Books
James Madison and the Battle Against Religious Establishments (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press).
The Choice Principle: The Biblical Case for Legal Toleration (Lanham, Md.: Univ. Press of America, 2006).
Book Reviews
13 Stone-Campbell J. ____ (forthcoming) (reviewing Flowers, Rogers, & Green, Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court (2008)).
10 Stone-Campbell J. 269 (2007) (reviewing John Witte, Jr., God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition (2006)).