Dr. Wayne Batchis
Professor
American Politics and Political Theory and Constitutional Law
Director, Legal Studies Program
University of Delaware
466 Smith Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-2355
Biography
Wayne Batchis, PhD (The Johns Hopkins University, 2009); JD (University of Pennsylvania, 1999) joined the Department in 2008. He specializes in American law, with a focus on Constitutional law, the First Amendment, and Election Law. His current research examines the intersection of America's two-party system and constitutional law. He teaches courses on Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, the First Amendment, Election Law and Comparative Constitutional Law. Professor Batchis serves as the Director of the Legal Studies Program at UD.
Recent Publications:
The Discriminatory Religion Clauses The Southern California Law Review, vol. 97 (2023).
Throwing the Party: How the Supreme Court Puts Political Party Organizations Ahead of Voters Cambridge University Press (2022).
Against Strict Scrutiny: The Supreme Court’s Quiet Degradation of First Amendment Speech Protection The University of Kansas Law Review, vol. 70, No. 1 (2021).
The Government Speech-Forum Continuum: A New First Amendment Paradigm and its Application to Academic Freedom” New York University Annual Survey of American Law, vol. 75, no. 1 (2019).
“The Government Speech-Forum Continuum: A New First Amendment Paradigm and its Application to Academic Freedom” New York University Annual Survey of American Law, (forthcoming 2020)
“The Political Party System as a Public Forum: The Incoherence of Parties as Expressive Associations and a Proposed Correction” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, vol. 52, no. 2 (2018)
"Local Governments and the Law" in The CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States Ed. Christine Kelleher Palus, Richardson Dilworth (2016)
"The Right's First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech & the Return of Conservative Libertarianism" Stanford University Press (2016)
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