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Michael A. Helfand, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director, Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies

Office: School of Law (SOL)
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  • Ph.D., Yale University, 2009
  • J.D., Yale University, 2007
  • B.A., Yeshiva University, 2002

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The Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies

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Michael Helfand received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University, where his fields included contemporary theory, political philosophy, and American politics.

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Publications


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Forthcoming Articles


  • Michael A. Helfand, What is a "Church"?: Implied Consent and the Contraception Mandate, J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES (forthcoming) SSRN
  • Michael A. Helfand, Religion's Footnote Four: Church Autonomy as Arbitration, 97 MINN. L. REV. (Forthcoming 2013) SSRN
  • Michael A. Helfand, Purpose, Precedent, and Politics: Why Concepcion Covers Less than You Think, 4 YB. ARB. & MEDIATION (forthcoming 2012) SSRN
  • Michael A. Helfand, A Liberalism of Sincerity: Religion's Role in the Public Square, 2 J. L. RELIGION & STATE (forthcoming) SSRN

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  • Michael A. Helfand, Litigating Religion, 93 BOSTON U. L. REV. 493 (2013) SSRN
  • Michael A. Helfand and Robert F. Cochran, Jr., The Competing Claims of Law and Religion: Who Should Influence Whom?: Introduction, 39 PEPP. L. REV. 1051 (2012) (symposium issue) SSRN
  • Michael A. Helfand & Yaacov Feit, Confirming Piskei Din in Secular Court, 61 J. HALACHA & CONTEMP. SOC'Y 5 (2011)
  • Michael A. Helfand, Religious Arbitration and the New Multiculturalism: Negotiating Conflicting Legal Orders, 86 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1231 (2011) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Michael A. Helfand, Fighting for the Debtor's Soul: Regulating Religious Commercial Conduct, 19 GEO. MASON L. REV. 157 (2011) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Michael A. Helfand, The Usual Suspect Classifications: Criminals, Aliens and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage, 12 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 1 (2009) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Michael A. Helfand, How the Diversity Rationale Lays the Groundwork for New Discrimination, 17 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 607 (2009) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Michael A. Helfand, When Religious Practices Become Legal Obligations: Extending the Foreign Compulsion Defense, 23 J.L. & RELIGION 535 (2008) SSRN HeinOnline

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