Daniel O. Conkle
Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law
Office: 331Phone: 812-855-4331
E-mail: conkle@indiana.edu
B.A., 1976, J.D., 1979, Ohio State University. Research Editor, Ohio State Law Journal. Clerk, Hon. Edward Allen Tamm, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1979-80. Associate, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1980-83. Member, Order of the Coif.
A member of the faculty since 1983, Professor Conkle teaches Constitutional Law, the First Amendment, and Law and Religion. His research addresses constitutional law and theory, religious liberty, and the role of religion in American law, politics, and public life. He is the author of numerous articles, as well as a book titled Constitutional Law: The Religion Clauses (Foundation Press, 2003).
Professor Conkle has been honored for his achievements both within and beyond the classroom. He is a recipient of the Leon H. Wallace Teaching Award and has twice won the Gavel Award for outstanding contribution to the graduating class. He has received six faculty fellowships for outstanding scholarship. In 1999, he was named the Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law.
In addition to his law school appointment, Professor Conkle is an adjunct professor of religious studies and a Nelson Poynter Scholar at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions.
You can view some of Professor Conkle's research at the Social Science Research Network.
Courses
- Constitutional Law (B513)
- Constitutional Law II (B668)
- Seminar in Constitutional Law: Law and Religion (L799)
- Constitutional Law (B513)