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Lino A. Graglia

  • A. Dalton Cross Professor

Education

  • LLB Columbia University
  • BA City College of New York

Areas of Specialty

Professor Graglia has written widely in constitutional law--especially on judicial review, constitutional interpretation, race discrimination, and affirmative action--and also teaches and writes in the area of antitrust. He is the author of Disaster by Decree: The Supreme Court Decisions on Race and the Schools (Cornell, 1976) and many articles, including recently "Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye: Of Animal Sacrifice and Religious Persecution" (Georgetown Law Journal, 1996). He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Recent Publications

  • Originalism and the Constitution: Does Originalism Always Provide the Answer? [Symposium: Originalism 2.0: The Twenty-Ninth Annual Federalist Society Nation Student Symposium on Land and Public Policy--2010], 34 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 73 (2011). View Article
  • Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens: An Irrational Public Policy, 14 Texas Review of Law & Politics 1 (2009).
  • Have More Faith in Democracy, Austin-American Statesman, September 4, 2008. <http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/09/0904graglia_edit.html>

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Contact Information

Lino A. Graglia

lgraglia@law.utexas.edu

Work (512) 232-1363

Fax (512) 471-6988

Office: JON 6.225
The University of Texas at Austin
727 E Dean Keeton Street
Austin, TX 78705

Faculty Assistant

Mary B. Hendryx mhendryx@law.utexas.edu
(512) 232-4860

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