Leslie Griffin

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Leslie Griffin holds the Larry and Joanne Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center. She is the author of Law and Religion: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2010).

Latest posts

Rethinking secularism

Religious freedom defeats secular law

Leslie Griffin·

January 19, 2012

Secular law lost unanimously in the Supreme Court of the United States last week. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)…

Rethinking secularism

Are religious institutions entitled to disobey the law?

Leslie Griffin·

October 25, 2011

One recurring justification for the ministerial exception has been the “problem” of women priests. The specter of the Roman Catholic…