Constitutional Law Scholar

Richard Garnett

3 articles 1999–2006

Richard Garnett is a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in constitutional law, religious liberty, and education policy. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard on topics including school choice, abortion jurisprudence, and the legal legacy of Abraham Lincoln.

What Would Lincoln Do?

October 16, 2006 · Michael Stokes Paulsen, Richard W. Garnett, Magazine

THE ROBERTS COURT has begun its 2006-07 session, and already on the docket are hot-ticket cases involving the use of race in school admissions, the use of child-victim statements in criminal-abuse cases, and the federal government's obligation to regulate greenhouse gases. But the case that may…

The Courts and Abortion

June 12, 2000 · Features, Richard W. Garnett, Magazine

After an eight-year hiatus from the abortion controversy, the Supreme Court will decide later this month in Stenberg v. Carhart whether Nebraska may outlaw partial-birth abortion, a practice that even so resolute an abortion-rights supporter as Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan says cannot be…