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Mary Jean Dolan joined the faculty in 2007 and teaches Family Law, Lawyering Skills, and Religion & Law. Her scholarship has focused on the First Amendment, an area in which she gained expertise by advising and writing laws and policies for the City of Chicago. Professor Dolan's most recently published law review article expands on an amicus brief she authored for the International Municipal Lawyers' Association, which recently was cited by the United States Supreme Court majority opinion in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum.
In addition to her municipal law practice, Professor Dolan also has taught as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Florida and IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she developed scholarly interest in family law, feminist theory, and legal pedagogy. Professor Dolan clerked for Judge Ilana Rovner, then on the US District Court, and was an associate at Mayer Brown in Chicago and an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review.
Full Curriculum Vitae
Government Identity Speech and Religion: The Endorsement Test After Summum
The Supreme Court's First Look at Municipal "Government Speech," Municipal Lawyer (July/August 2009)
Why Donated Monuments are Government Speech: The Hard Case of Pleasant Grove v. Summum, 58 Catholic University Law Review 7 (Fall 2008)
New Risk on an Uncertain Path: Establishment Clause Guidelines for Municipal Aid to Religious Organizations, 49 Municipal Lawyer 15 (March/April 2008)
Government-Sponsored Chaplaincies and Crisis: Walking the Fine Line in Disaster Response and Daily Life, 35 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 505 (Spring 2008)
Selected Presentations
Government Identity Speech and the Endorsement Test, The John
Marshall Law
School, Faculty
Works-in-Progress Series, September 10, 2009
Religious, Historical, and Communitarian Government Speech - Its Net Impact on Minority Religious and Free Speech Rights, Oxford Round Table, Oxford, England, July 19-24, 2009
Postnuptial Contracts and Marital Equality, Emerging Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, CO, May 26-27, 2009
The Recent Pleasant Grove Decision: Its Import for IMLA and Municipal Government Speech, International Municipal Lawyers Association Annual Seminar, Washington, D.C., April 20, 2009
Why
Monuments are Government Speech: The Hard Case of Pleasant Grove v. Summum, The John Marshall Law School, Faculty Works-In-Progress Series, October 16, 2008
Best Practices in Teaching Legal Research, Global Legal Skills Conference, Monterey, Mexico, February 28-29, 2008
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