Dwight G. Duncan

Professor Dwight Duncan teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Legal Ethics, Religion and the Law, and Bioethics at University of Massachusetts School of Law Dartmouth. His interests include legal history and legal philosophy.

Professor Duncan is an honors graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. A native Washingtonian, he practiced law there with the telephone company, now part of Verizon. He has written articles on legal, moral, and religious issues. He has argued several cases before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Appeals Court and has written briefs for the US Supreme Court. He is a member of the Massachusetts and Washington DC bars. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund and on the Board of Advisors of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.

Bracingly liberal views

28 Feb 2013 |

tags: law, obituaries, political correctness

Legal scholar Ronald Dworkin, the grand old man of political correctness, died earlier this month.

Religious freedom: use it or lose it

27 Jun 2012 |

tags: healthcare mandate, religious freedom

This is a Paul Revere moment for America. But it's not the British who are coming; it's Big Brother.

Fashioning a constitutional right to gay marriage

7 Aug 2010 |

tags: Proposition 8, same-sex marriage, U S Constitution

Judge Walker wrote a firewall opinion: no matter what judicial standard applied, gays would always win.

Whistling past the graveyard

20 Jul 2010 |

tags: public discourse, secularism

Why is public debate so shallow, impoverished and pointless? A new book contends that reason has been exiled and replaced by mere reasonableness.

Is same-sex marriage in the US running out of steam?

29 Jul 2006 |

In several states this month, courts handed down decisions which did not favour the cause of social reform. Is a judicial consensus emerging?

Tipping the balance

22 Jul 2005 |

Distinguished, polite, intelligent, poised, competent, honest and direct: the press has run out of adjectives to describe President Bush's Supreme Court nominee. What should we really be looking for?