Marci A Hamilton

Marci A. Hamilton is Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science and Fox Family Pavilion Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds master's degrees in philosophy and English from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra...See more

Marci A. Hamilton is Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science and Fox Family Pavilion Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds master's degrees in philosophy and English from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Hamilton is the author of God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty, Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law (with Mark Rozell); Children and the Law; and Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children. She is also the founder and CEO of CHILD USA, a nonprofit interdisciplinary think tank developing civil rights for children. See less