John M. Kang
CV (downloadable)
I am Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico. I teach constitutional law, and I write about that, along with manliness, religion, and various topics related to freedom and authority.
Email: johnMkang at gmail.com
Book
Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness (Routledge, 2018)
Articles
"Against Hyperindividualism"
48 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy__(forthcoming 2025)
2024 Utah Law Review 679 (2024)
Reprinted in First Amendment Law Handbook (Rodney Smolla, ed.) (Thomson Reuters 2025)
"Why the Actual Malice Test Should Be Eliminated"
50 Florida State Univ. Law Review 513 (2023)
22 Nevada Law Journal 803 (2022)
"The Political Urgency of Black Manhood: Frederick Douglass on Constitutional Theory,"
52 New Mexico Law Review 341 (2022)
21 Nevada Law Journal 1061 (2021) (symposium) (coauthored with Karissa Kang)
"Patriarchy and Constitutional Origins" in Constitutions and Gender (Helen Irving, ed.) (Edward Elgar, 2017)
"Prove Yourselves: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Obsessions of Manliness"
118 West Virginia Law Review 1067 (2016)
"In Praise of Hostility: Antiauthoritarianism as Free Speech Principle"
35 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 351 (2012)
33 Harvard Journal of Law and Gender 477 (2010)
"Appeal to Heaven: On the Religious Origins of the Constitutional Right of Revolution"
18 William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 281 (2010)
"Manliness and the Constitution"
32 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 261 (2009)
15 Michigan Journal of Gender and Law 1 (2008)
73 Brooklyn Law Review 1 (2007)
Cited in U.S. v. Polizzi, 549 F.Supp.2d 308, 380 (2008) (E.D.N.Y.)
"The Irrelevance of Sincerity: Deliberative Democracy in the Supreme Court"
48 Saint Louis University Law Journal 305 (2004)
"The Uses of Insincerity: Thomas Hobbes's Theory of Law and Society"
15 Law and Literature 371 (2003) (peer-refereed)
29 Studies in Law, Politics and Society 143 (2003) (peer-refereed)
"Between Aspiration and Alternity: Sotirios Barber and Robert Cover on Constitutional Fidelity"
22 Studies in Law, Politics and Society 113 (2001) (peer-refereed)
"Deconstructing the Ideology of White Aesthetics"
2 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 283 (1997)
Shorter Essays
13 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 399 (2015) (symposium)
"The Soldier and the Imbecile: How Holmes's Manliness Fated Carrie Buck"
47 Akron Law Review 1055 (2015) (symposium)
13 Nevada Law Journal 467 (2013) (symposium)
Reprinted in Arts & Opinion (2013) (online)
“Affirmative Action: Race and Ethnic Preferences in College Admissions"
CABA Briefs (summer 2012) (solicited by the Cuban American Bar Assoc.)
Printed in Masculinities and Law: A Multidimensional Approach (Frank Rudy Cooper and Ann C. McGinley, eds.) (NYU Press, 2012)
"Martin v. Malcolm: Democracy, Nonviolent Resistance, and Manhood"
114 West Virginia Law Review 937 (2012) (symposium)
"Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: Worst Case in the History of the World, Maybe the Universe"
12 Nevada Law Journal 582 (2012) (symposium)
29 Vermont Law Review 7 (2004)
Reprinted in Locke and Law (Thom Brooks, ed.) (Ashgate, 2007)
"A Review of Ronald Takaki’s A Different Mirror"
2 UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal 115 (1994)
Awards
University of New Mexico Law School
Henry Weihofen Professor of Law, 2023-2024
The Professor Pamela Burgy Minzner Award for Faculty Excellence & Professionalism, 2020-2022
University of Michigan
Horace H. Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2001
Highest teaching award given to any graduate student instructor at the University of Michigan (approximately 15-20 awarded per year)
John W. Kingdon Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2001
Given to a graduate student instructor in the Political Science Department at the University of Michigan (three awarded per year)
Outstanding Undergraduate Concentration Adviser Award, 2000
Given to a concentration adviser by the Political Science Department at the University of Michigan
St. Thomas University Law School
Professor of the Year (for upper-division courses), as voted by the students at St. Thomas University School of Law (*denotes Professor of the Year for first-year courses)
2019 (Professor of the Year for 1L courses and Professor of the Year for upper-division courses; 2019 was my final year as a professor at St. Thomas)
2018*
2017
2016
2015
2014
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
Teaching Areas
Core Subject
Constitutional Law
Specialty Areas
First Amendment
Jurisprudence
Law and Society
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D., Political Science, December 2006.
Dissertation: In Defense of Insincerity and Hypocrisy in Liberalism
M.A., Political Science, May 2000.
U.C.L.A. School of Law
J.D., May 1996
Editor-in-Chief 1995-96, UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal
Special Features Editor 1994-95, UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal
University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Political Science, May 1992
Departmental Honors
High Distinction in General Scholarship
Phi Beta Kappa