Justice, Texas First District Court of Appeals
Susanna Dokupil was elected to the First Court of Appeals in November 2024. With over two decades of experience, Susanna’s career has spanned all three branches of government as well as private practice. She has been a Special Counsel and Assistant Solicitor General in the Office of the Attorney General of Texas as well as a Special Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and a law clerk to the Hon. Jerry Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
In her role as Special Counsel at the Texas Attorney General’s office, Susanna led teams of litigators focused on protecting Texas’s interests against agency regulations that exceeded the agency’s statutory and constitutional power. As an Assistant Solicitor General, she drafted briefs before the Fifth Circuit and United States Supreme Court, primarily focused on First Amendment issues. Susanna’s experience in private practice has combined traditional commercial litigation with advising technology companies and founders on strategic communications.
Susanna has been a prolific speaker and writer on law and public policy topics, including articles in The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, The Texas Review of Law & Politics, American Enterprise, the Washington Times, and the Houston Chronicle, among others.
Susanna is a graduate of Harvard Law School and also holds degrees from The George Washington University and Baylor University. She lives in Houston and has four children.
Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School
Gerard V. Bradley is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches Legal Ethics and Constitutional Law. At Notre Dame he directs (with John Finnis) the Natural Law Institute and co-edits The American Journal of Jurisprudence, an international forum for legal philosophy. Bradley has been a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, in Princeton, New Jersey. He served for many years as President of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.
Bradley received his B.A and J.D. degrees from Cornell University, graduating Summa cum laude from the law school in 1980. After serving in the Trial Division of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office he joined the law faculty at the University of Illinois. He moved to Notre Dame in 1992. Bradley has published over one hundred scholarly articles and reviews. His most recent books are an edited collection of essays titled, Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century (published by Cambridge University Press in 2012), Essays on Law, Religion, and Morality and Unquiet Americans: U.S. Catholics and the Common Good (both to be published in 2014.) He is currently working on a book about regulating obscenity in the Internet Age.
Paul J. Schierl Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School
Professor Richard W. Garnett teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, criminal law, the First Amendment, and law and religion. He is a leading authority on questions and debates regarding religious freedom and church-state relations, and is the founding director of Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State, and Society.
Garnett clerked for the late Chief Justice of the United States, William H. Rehnquist, and also for the late Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Richard S. Arnold. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995 and his B.A., summa cum laude, from Duke University in 1990. He joined the faculty in 1999 after practicing law in Washington, D.C. with Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin.
I, Plaintiff: A Chat with Joshua Davey
Susanna Dokupil
The State of Washington’s Promise Scholarship program thrust Joshua Davey into the legal spotlight as...
Reflections on Newdow
Paul J. Griffiths, Gerard V. Bradley
The Newdow case has gone away but the fuss about “under God” will not. Even...
Beyond the Pledge of Allegiance: Hostility to Religious Expression in the Public Square
Richard W. Garnett
I appreciate the opportunity to share with the Subcommittee some thoughts about the place of...
Listening to VOIP
Julian Gehman
The current debate in Congress and at the FCC over regulating voice over Internet protocol...
John D. Pickering Reviews Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation by Jarol B. Manheim
John Pickering
Quick: Who is Joseph Mailman? Ever hear of the Tides Foundation? How about Shaman Pharmaceuticals?...
Jeffrey Ladik Reviews Social Security and its Discontents Edited by Michael D. Tanner
Jeffrey Ladik
The “third rail” of politics, Social Security, is without doubt an extremely controversial political issue....
Bar Watch Bulletin August 10, 2004
House of Delegates Action
Today we are reporting live from the meeting of the ABA House of Delegates. The...
Bar Watch Bulletin August 9, 2004
Civil Rights panels, Torture Resolution Debate
ABA WATCH will be reporting daily from the American Bar Association's Annual meeting in Atlanta...
Bar Watch Bulletin August 9, 2004
Int'l Human Rights Awards, Supreme Court Docket, war on terror
International Human Rights Award At the International Human Rights Award session, Washington Post writer Bob...
Bar Watch Bulletin August 8, 2004
Archer Press Conference, Same-Sex Marriage Panel
ABA WATCH will be reporting daily from the ABA Meetings in Atlanta through August 10....