John M. Kang


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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" 

"First Amendment Fetishism"

"Why the Actual Malice Test Should Be Eliminated"

"Against Political Speech"

"The Political Urgency of Black Manhood: Frederick Douglass on Constitutional Theory," 

"Anomalous Anatomies" 

"Patriarchy and Constitutional Origins" in Constitutions and Gender (Helen Irving, ed.) (Edward Elgar, 2017)

"Prove Yourselves:  Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Obsessions of Manliness" 

"In Praise of Hostility: Antiauthoritarianism as Free Speech Principle"

"The Burdens of Manliness"

"Appeal to Heaven: On the Religious Origins of the Constitutional Right of Revolution"

"Manliness and the Constitution"

"Taking Safety Seriously"

"Deliberating the Divine"

"The Irrelevance of Sincerity: Deliberative Democracy in the Supreme Court"

"The Uses of Insincerity: Thomas Hobbes's Theory of Law and Society"

"The Case for Insincerity"

"Between Aspiration and Alternity: Sotirios Barber and Robert Cover on Constitutional Fidelity" 

"Deconstructing the Ideology of White Aesthetics" 

Shorter Essays

“Fractured Manliness" 

"The Soldier and the Imbecile:  How Holmes's Manliness Fated Carrie Buck"

“Does Manly Courage Exist?”

“Affirmative Action: Race and Ethnic Preferences in College Admissions"

"Manliness's Paradox"

"Martin v. Malcolm: Democracy, Nonviolent Resistance, and Manhood"

"Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: Worst Case in the History of the World, Maybe the Universe"

"John Locke's Political Plan, or, There's No Such Thing as Judicial Impartiality (And It's a Good Thing, Too)"

"A Review of Ronald Takaki’s A Different Mirror"

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

John W. Kingdon Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2001

Outstanding Undergraduate Concentration Adviser Award, 2000

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)

Teaching Areas 

Core Subject

Specialty Areas

Education 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

U.C.L.A. School of Law

University of California, Berkeley