In March, Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord delivered presentations at Wake Forest University, Thomas M. Cooley and Michigan State University law schools, focusing on sectarian legislative prayer and the First Amendment at Wake Forest and Cooley, and on Constitutional Law questions surrounding the taxation of e-commerce at Michigan State.
On March 28, Gaylord spoke at Wake Forest University School of Law as part of a faculty scholarship exchange program between Elon and Wake Forest. Gaylord presented before an audience of approximately 35 faculty members. He spoke about sectarian legislative prayer and the Fourth Circuit’s ruling in Joyner v. Forsyth County.
On March 20, Gaylord spoke at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, at a Federalist Society forum on sectarian legislative prayer and the First Amendment.
On March 19, Gaylord spoke at Michigan State University College of Law, at an event organized by the law school’s Federalist Society titled, “Taxing Amazon.” In that presentation, Gaylord presented insights from his recent North Carolina Law Review article, co-authored with Elon Law Professor Andy Haile, titled, “Constitutional Threats in the E-Commerce Jungle: First Amendment and Dormant Commerce Clause Limits on Amazon Laws and Use Tax Reporting Statutes.”
Recent scholarship by Elon Law Professor Scott Gaylord includes:
“When the Exception Becomes the Rule: Marsh and Sectarian Legislative Prayer Post-Summum,” published in the Spring 2011 edition of the University of Cincinnati Law Review;
“Licensing Facially Religious Government Speech: Summum’s impact on the Free Speech and Establishment Clauses,” published in 2010 in the First Amendment Law Review; and,
“Unconventional Wisdom: The Roberts Court’s Proper Support of Judicial Elections,” forthcoming in the Michigan State Law Review.
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