Sarah Barringer Gordon

Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches in the areas of church and state, property, and legal history in the law school, and American religious and constitutional history in the history department. Sally is the author of The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), and The Spirit of the Law Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2010), “The New Age and the New Law: Malnak v. Yogi ,” in Leslie Griffin, ed., Law And Religion: Cases in Context (Aspen Publishers, 2010), and “Law and Religion, 1790-1920,” in The Cambridge History of Law in America , Michael Grossberg and Christopher Tomlins, eds. (Cambridge, 2008). She is currently at work on two new book projects. The first, tentatively titled The Landscape of Faith , about religion and property across American national history. The second, Convictions (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press), is co-authored with Kathryn Daynes of Brigham Young University, and is a social and legal history of prosecutions of Utah polygamists in the nineteenth century. Professor Gordon directs the Penn Legal History Consortium and founded the Penn combined J.D. / Ph.D. Program in American Legal History.

The Spirit of the Law

October 12, 2012

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815770-the-spirit-of-the-law The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America by Sarah Barringer…

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