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Paul McGreal @paulmcgreal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

My new essay in Michigan Law Review Online: When states mandate Ten Commandments displays in classrooms, they replay a coercive dynamic from Reformation Europe—Catholic processions that forced Protestants to publicly reveal their faith or face persecution. 1/2 michiganlawreview.org/ten-commandm...

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Ten Commandments Cases: Learning from Reformation Coercion - Michigan Law Review

The Supreme Court’s recent embrace of “historical practices and understandings” in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to challenge forty-five years of precedent prohibiting Te...

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Paul McGreal @paulmcgreal.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

My essay Ten Commandments Cases: Learning from Reformation Coercion, will be published in Volume 124 of the Michigan Law Review Online. Here is a link to the current draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... The abstract appears in the following thread.

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Ten Commandments Cases: Learning from Reformation Coercion

The Supreme Court's recent embrace of "historical practices and understandings" in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to chal

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Paul McGreal @paulmcgreal.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Thrilled to publish my essay “The First US Law School Course on Compliance: Its Origins and Evolution” in the most recent edition of the Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers newsletter! www.linkedin.com/pulse/compli...

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Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers. Edition 121

Dear friends, Welcome to the 121st edition of Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers. This week, Adam Balfour takes a fresh look at a well-worn phrase, tone at the top.

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