Prof. David Upham

Associate Professor of Law,, St. Thomas University College of Law

David R. Upham is Associate Professor of Law at the St. Thomas University College of Law (Miami) and Senior Fellow in Politics and Law at the University of Dallas, where he once served as Associate Professor and Chair of the Politics Department. He has researched and published extensively in the field of constitutional history, and the history of the Fourteenth Amendment in particular.

He is the author of Taking American Citizenship Seriously: The Recovery of the Fourteenth Amendment (forthcoming, Lexington Books); Plowing Around Obergefell (forthcoming, Notre Dame Law Review, 2025); Prenatal Personhood, State Duties, and Congress's Abortion Power Under the Fourteenth Amendment (Catholic University Law Review, 2025); Interracial Marriage and the Original Understanding of the Privileges or Immunities Clause (Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, 2015); and Note, Corfield v. Coryell and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship (Texas Law Review, 2005).

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7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 1-A

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Thursday 2:30 p.m. PDT

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Moscone Center South
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7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 2-A

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Westin Washington DC Downtown
999 9th St NW
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Tiwari v. Friedlander: Which Rational Basis Test is it Anyway?

Thursday 2:30 p.m. EDT

Tiwari v. Friedlander: Which Rational Basis Test is it Anyway?

Teleforum

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Fourteenth Amendment • Healthcare • Environmental Law & Property Rights

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20th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference

Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
333 W Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101

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Administrative Law & Regulation • Election Law • Federal Courts • Federalism • Fourteenth Amendment • International Law & Trade • State Courts • Supreme Court

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The Thirteenth Amendment 150 Years Later

Thursday 4:30 p.m. PDT

The Thirteenth Amendment 150 Years Later

19th Annual Faculty Conference

Parc 55 San Francisco - A Hilton Hotel
55 Cyril Magnin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

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Civil Rights • Constitution • Culture • Founding Era & History • Politics

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Nov 7 2022

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Tiwari v. Friedlander: Which Rational Basis Test is it Anyway?

Adam F. Griffin, David Upham, Andrew H. Ward

In Tiwari v. Friedlander, the Petitioners ask the Supreme Court to grant certiorari to address...

Nov 7 2022

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Tiwari v. Friedlander: Which Rational Basis Test is it Anyway?

Adam F. Griffin, David Upham, Andrew H. Ward

In Tiwari v. Friedlander, the Petitioners ask the Supreme Court to grant certiorari to address...

Jan 23 2017

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The Thirteenth Amendment 150 Years Later

Randy E. Barnett, Jennifer Mason McAward, Alexander Tsesis, David Upham

19th Annual Faculty Conference

December 2015 marked 150 years since the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment—an occasion of singular...

Jan 23 2017

The Thirteenth Amendment 150 Years Later

Randy E. Barnett, Jennifer Mason McAward, Alexander Tsesis, David Upham

19th Annual Faculty Conference

December 2015 marked 150 years since the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment—an occasion of singular...