Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies​
Access Professor Conkle's author profiles on the following services:
Note. Representation Under the Ohio Public Defender Act, 38 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 855 (1977). [HeinOnline]
Comment. Assumption of Risk in a Comparative Negligence System—Doctrinal, Practical and Policy Issues, 39 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 364 (1978). [HeinOnline]
Comparative Negligence Versus the Constitutional Guarantee of Equal Protection: A Hypothetical Judicial Decision (with Claude R. Sowle), 1979 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 1083 (1979). [HeinOnline]
The Legitimacy of Judicial Review in Individual Rights Cases: Michael Perry’s Constitutional Theory and Beyond, 69 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 587 (1985). [HeinOnline]
Nonoriginalist Constitutional Rights and the Problem of Judicial Finality, 13 HASTINGS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW QUARTERLY 9 (1985). [HeinOnline]
A “Conservative” Judge and the First Amendment: Judicial Restraint and Freedom of Expression, 74 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 1585 (1986). [HeinOnline]
The Second Death of Substantive Due Process, 62 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 215 (1987). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Toward a General Theory of the Establishment Clause, 82 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1113 (1988) [HeinOnline] [SSRN]. Reprinted in THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION CLAUSE: THE FIRST AMENDMENT: ITS CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE (Alan Brownstein, Ed.). Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008.
Canada’s Roe: The Canadian Abortion Decision and Its Implications for American Constitutional Law and Theory, 6 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 299 (1989). [HeinOnline]
Compromising on Abortion, 8 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 353 (1991). [HeinOnline]
Religious Purpose, Inerrancy, and the Establishment Clause, 67 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 1 (1991). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Does the United States Need an Establishment Clause?: God Loveth Adverbs, 42 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 339 (1992). [HeinOnline]
Harm, Morality, and Feminist Religion: Canada’s New—But Not So New—Approach to Obscenity, 10 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 105 (1993). [HeinOnline]
Lemon Lives, 43 CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW 865 (1993). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
The New First Amendment and its Impact on the Second, 68 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 679 (1993). [HeinOnline]
Different Religions, Different Politics: Evaluating the Role of Competing Religious Traditions in American Politics and Law, 10 JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 1 (1993/94). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
The Indiana Supreme Court’s Emerging Free Speech Doctrine, 69 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 857 (1994). [HeinOnline]
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act: The Constitutional Significance of an Unconstitutional Statute, 56 MONTANA LAW REVIEW 39 (1995). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Secular Fundamentalism, Religious Fundamentalism, and the Search for Truth in Contemporary America, 12 JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 337 (1996) [HeinOnline] [SSRN]. Republished in LAW AND RELIGION: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY (Stephen M. Feldman, Ed.). New York: NYU Press, 2000.
Congressional Alternatives in the Wake of City of Boerne v. Flores: The (Limited) Role of Congress in Protecting Religious Freedom from State and Local Infringement, 20 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK LAW JOURNAL 633 (1998). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Professing Professionals: Christian Pilots on the River of Law, 38 CATHOLIC LAWYER 151 (1998). [HeinOnline]. Reprinted in RELIGION, MORALITY AND THE PROFESSIONS IN AMERICA, Bloomington, IN: Poynter Center, Indiana University, 1999.
Religiously Devout Judges: Issues of Personal Integrity and Public Benefit, 81 MARQUETTE LAW REVIEW 523 (1998). [HeinOnline]
Free Exercise, Federalism, and the States as Laboratories, 21 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 493 (1999). [HeinOnline]
The Path of American Religious Liberty: From the Original Theology to Formal Neutrality and an Uncertain Future, 75 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 1 (2000). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
The Free Exercise Clause: How Redundant, and Why?, 33 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO LAW JOURNAL 95 (2001). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Religion, Politics, and the 2000 Presidential Election: A Selective Survey and Tentative Appraisal, 77 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 247 (2002). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Religious Expression and Symbolism in the American Constitutional Tradition: Governmental Neutrality, But Not Indifference, 13 INDIANA JOURNAL OF GLOBAL LEGAL STUDIES 417 (2006). [HeinOnline]
Three Theories of Substantive Due Process, 85 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 63 (2006). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
The Establishment Clause and Religious Expression in Governmental Settings: Four Variables in Search of a Standard, 110 WEST VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 315 (2007). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Judicial Activism and Fourteenth Amendment Privacy Claims: The Allure of Originalism and the Unappreciated Promise of Constrained Nonoriginalism, 14 NEXUS: A JOURNAL OF OPINION 31 (2009). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Patrick L. Baude: Colleague, Mentor, and Friend, 86 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL ix (2011). [HeinOnline]
Religious Truth, Pluralism, and Secularization: The Shaking Foundations of American Religious Liberty, 32 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 1755 (2011). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Evolving Values, Animus, and Same-Sex Marriage 89 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 27 (2014). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Animus and Its Alternatives: Constitutional Principle and Judicial Prudence, 48 STETSON LAW REVIEW 195 (2019). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Human Rights, Constitutional Rights, and Judicial Review: Comparing and Assessing Michael Perry's Early and Contemporary Arguments, 71 EMORY LAW JOURNAL 1365 (2022). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]