Marc Arkin

Marc M. Arkin is a Professor of Law Emeriti at Fordham University School of law where she concentrated on civil procedure, transnational litigation, and conflict of laws. A 1982 graduate of the Yale Law School, Professor Arkin also holds a Ph.D. in American Religious History from the Religious Studies Department of Yale University. She clerked for the Honorable Ralph K. Winter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and spent several years as a litigator in New York before joining the Fordham faculty. Professor Arkin is the author of articles in areas ranging from nineteenth century American habeas corpus practice to the influence of David Hume on the thought of James Madison and, most recently, on the role of New England regionalism in national affairs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In addition, Professor Arkin has written widely on law, religion, and history, for a variety of publications including The Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun, and The New Criterion. In addition to Fordham, Professor Arkin has taught at Boston University Law School, LUISS University Guido Carli (Rome); and Universite Jean Moulin, Insitut de Droit Compare Edouard Lambert (Lyon).

Education

Oberlin College, AB, 1973
Yale University, MA, 1975, MPhil, 1976, JD, 1982, PhD, 1983

Representative Publications

• 'A Convenient Seat in God's Temple': The Massachusetts General Colored Association and the Park Street Church Pew Controversy of 1830, 89, The New England Quarterly 6 (March 2016).
• The Force of Ancient Manners: Federalist Politics and the Unitarian Controversy, 22 Journal of the Early Republic 575 (Winter 2002).
• The Federalist Trope: Power and Passion in Abolitionist Rhetoric, 88 Journal of American History 75 (June 2001). 
  Available via JSTOR.
• Regionalism and the Religion Clauses: The Contribution of Fisher Ames, 47 Buffalo L. Rev. 763 (1999).
• The Ghost at the Banquet:  Slavery, Federalism, and Habeas Corpus for State Prisoners, 70 Tulane L. Rev. 1 (1995) (winner of the John Minor Wisdom Award for Academic Excellence in Legal Scholarship).