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Professor Magliocca Co-Writes Letter Petitioning President Obama to Award Presidential Medal of Freedom to John Bingham
11/16/2016
IU McKinney Professor Gerard Magliocca has co-written a letter asking President Barack Obama to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to John A. Bingham, the former Ohio Congressman who wrote a significant portion of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Bingham was a leading antislavery lawyer in his day, and the portion of the amendment that he wrote guarantees fundamental rights and equality to all Americans.
Professor Magliocca co-wrote the letter with Professor Michael Kent Curtis of Wake Forest University School of Law. The letter appears on the blog, Concurring Opinions, where Professor Magliocca is a frequent contributor.
Bingham was the subject of Professor Magliocca’s most recent book: American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was published by NYU Press in 2013.
Professor Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at IU McKinney. He is the author of three books and over 20 articles on constitutional law and intellectual property. He teaches torts, constitutional law, intellectual property, legal history, and admiralty. He is presently at work on a fourth book, The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights, which will be published by Oxford University Press.
