Adam J. Macleod

Education

Adam MacLeod teaches courses in property, intellectual property, and the intersection of law & public policy. He writes about jurisprudence and property law. His articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and law reviews in the United States and overseas. He has spoken at numerous conferences, on radio, and at continuing legal education seminars concerning both property and jurisprudence.

Professor MacLeod joined the law school faculty in 2007 as an Associate Professor. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Gordon College (MA) and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board. After law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Justice Christopher Armstrong and Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and to Chief Judge Lewis Babcock of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. He litigated and tried cases in and around Boston while in private practice.

Professor MacLeod is a member of Christ Church in Montgomery, where he attends with his wife and daughters. A former and founding member of the Pneuma Brass Quintet in Boston, he is an avid musician, runner, cyclist, skier, hiker, and Notre Dame partisan.

During the 2012-2013 academic year, Professor MacLeod is on leave from Faulkner Law. He is a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

Publications

Published Scholarly Articles:

Identifying Values in Land Use Regulation, 101 Kentucky Law Journal (forthcoming 2012)

The Mystery of Life in the Laboratory of Democracy: Personal Autonomy in State Law, 59 Cleveland State Law Review 589 (2012)

Resurrecting the Bogeyman: The Curious Forms of the Substantial Burden Test in RLUIPA, 40 Real Estate Law Journal 115 (2011) (peer-edited journal)

Empathy’s White Elephant: Responding to the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Without Denigrating the Poor, 9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 283 (2011)

A Non-Fatal Collision: Where Religious Land Uses and Community Interests Meet, 42 Urban Lawyer 41 (2010) (peer-edited journal)

The (Contingent) Value of Autonomy and the Reflexivity of (Some) Basic Goods, 5 Journal Jurisprudence 11 (2010) (invited lead article in peer-edited symposium)

A Gift Worth Dying For?: Debating the Volitional Nature of Suicide in Personal Property Law, 45 Idaho Law Review 93 (2008)

The Search for Moral Neutrality in Same-Sex Marriage Decisions, 23 BYU Journal of Public Law 1 (2008)

The Law as Bard: Extolling a Culture’s Virtues, Exposing Its Vices, and Telling Its Story, 1 Journal Jurisprudence 11 (2008) (peer-edited journal)

All for One: A Review of Victim-centric Justifications for Criminal Punishment, 13 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 31 (2008)

Book Chapter:

“The Curious Forms of the Substantial Burden Test in RLUIPA,” in Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (ed. Patricia E. Salkin, West, 2012) (invited reprint)

Essays, Editorials, and Book Reviews:

Marriage Decisions and the Importance of Judicial Reason, Public Discourse (March 5, 2012) (invited)  http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/03/4768

Social Justice, Institutions, and Communities, Public Discourse (January 27, 2012) (invited)  http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/01/4400

Purpose, Palliative Care, and Respect for Human Life, Public Discourse (January 11, 2012) (invited)  http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/01/4486

Private Property and Human Flourishing, Public Discourse (October 25, 2011) (invited)  http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/10/3648

Various Guest Posts, Land Use Prof Blog (October, 2011) (invited)

The Forgotten Front in the Fight for Life, Public Discourse (September 14, 2011) (invited)  http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/09/3965

A Review of Jean Porter’s Ministers of the Law, 4 Journal of Faith and the Academy (2011) (invited)

Moral Neutrality Abandoned, Mobile Press-Register (May 17, 2008)

The Groningen Protocol: Legalized Infanticide in the Netherlands and Why it Should Not be Adopted in the United States, 10 Michigan State Journal of Medicine & Law 557 (2006)

With Robert J. Muldoon, Untangling the Conflict Rules, Disqualification of Counsel, 32 Mass. Lawyers Weekly 1435 (March 8, 2004)