Philip Hamburger
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Philip Hamburger is an American legal scholar.
Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at the Columbia University School of Law. His is a legal historian and a scholar of constitutional law. Before moving to Columbia, Hamburger was John P. Wilson Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was also Director of the Bigelow Program and the Legal History Program. He was previously Oswald Symyster Colclough Research Professor at George Washington University Law School and, before that, he taught at the University of Connecticut Law School. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School and was the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern Law School. Early in his career, he was an Associate at the law firm of Schnader, Harrison, Segal and Lewis in Philadelphia.
Hamburger holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School (1982) and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University (1979).
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[edit] First Amendment
Hamburger is a "leading student" of the First Amendment.[1] He is known for arguing that “the First Amendment, originally thought to limit the government, has been increasingly interpreted by the Court to mean limiting religion and confining it to the private sphere.”[2]
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- Beliefs; Behind the concept of the separation of church and state, a scholar finds some unsettling origins, PETER STEINFELS, New York Times, July 6, 2002 [2]
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- Law and Judicial Duty (Harvard University Press, 2008)
- Separation of Church and State (Harvard University Press, 2002)
- "Religious Liberty in Philadelphia," Emory Law Journal (2005)
- "The New Censorship: Institutional Review Boards," Supreme Court Review (2004)
- "More is Less," Virginia Law Review (2004)
- "Law and Judicial Duty," George Washington Law Review (2003)
- "Liberality," Texas Law Review (2002)
- "Revolution and Judicial Review: Chief Justice Holt's Opinion in City of London v. Wood," Columbia Law Review (1994).
