Paul Horwitz

Paul Horwitz is the Gordon Rosen Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law, where he teaches courses in law and religion, constitutional law, law and public policy, legal ethics, and legislation and regulation. A prominent First Amendment scholar, he has authored two books—The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution (Oxford University Press) and First Amendment Institutions (Harvard University Press)—as well as numerous articles in leading law reviews.

• Prior roles include Associate Professor at Southwestern Law School and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Iowa, Notre Dame, and the University of San Diego.
• Areas of expertise: Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, First Amendment, and Law & Religion.
• Education: LL.B. from the University of Toronto (co-editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty Law Review), LL.M. from Columbia Law School.

He contributes to general-readership publications like the New York Times and is a member of the legal blog Prawfsblawg. His work has been widely cited in discussions of legal ethics and law and religion.