Howard Gillman

About

Howard Gillman is the Chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, and a Professor of Law, Political Science, and Criminology, Law & Society. He became UCI's sixth chancellor on September 18, 2014, after serving as provost and executive vice chancellor since June 2013 and interim chancellor since July 1, 2014. An award-winning scholar and teacher, Gillman has academic appointments in multiple departments and has authored several books, including The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence, The Votes That Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election, and American Constitutionalism. He has also co-edited volumes and authored more than 40 articles and book chapters. Prior to his appointment at UCI, Gillman was a professor at the University of Southern California, where he served as dean of the USC David & Dana Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences from 2007 to 2012. His scholarly contributions have earned him numerous awards, including the C. Herman Pritchett Award and the American Judicature Society Award, and he has been recognized for his dedication to teaching and mentoring students.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Law
• Computer Science
• Gender studies
• Epistemology
• History
• Philosophy
• Programming language

Selected publications

• The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State

  2020 · 3 citations

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  In The Religion Clauses, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman examine the extremely controversial issue of the relationship between religion and government. They argue for a separation of church and state. To the greatest extent possible, the government should remain secular. At the same, time they contend that religion should not provide a basis for an exemptions from general laws, such as those prohibiting discrimination or requiring the provision of services

• The Religion Clauses

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2020 · 2 citations

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  Abstract The relationship between the government and religion is deeply divisive. With the recent changes in the composition of the Supreme Court, the First Amendment law concerning religion is likely to change dramatically in the years ahead. The Court can be expected to reject the idea of a wall separating church and state and permit much more religious involvement in government and government support for religion. The Court is also likely to expand the rights of religious people to ignore leg…

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• CHAPTER SIX. What’s at Stake?

  Yale University Press eBooks · 2019-12-31 · 1 citations

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• Prologue: Knowing the Principles Isn’t Enough

  Yale University Press eBooks · 2026-02-02

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• JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE THROUGH THE LENS OF BUSH V. GORE:

  Princeton University Press eBooks · 2021-07-13

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Frequent coauthors

• Erwin Chemerinsky

  University of California Hastings College of the Law

  11 shared

• Mark A. Graber

  8 shared

• Keith E. Whittington

  Princeton University

  7 shared

• Rudolph J.R. Peritz

  2 shared

• Cornell W. Clayton

  Washington State University

  2 shared

• Susan Burgess

  1 shared

• Archana M. Agarwal

  University of Utah

  1 shared

• Charles Lee

  University of California, San Francisco

  1 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science and Criminology, Law & Society

  University of California, Irvine

• B.A.

  University of California, Irvine

Awards & honors

• C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book in the field of publ…
• American Judicature Society Award for best paper presented a…
• USC Dornsife's General Education Teaching Award
• Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching – USC's highest…

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