MARC M. ARKIN
Home Address: Work Address: 100 Bank Street Fordham University School of Law Apartment 6-B 140 West 62nd Street New York, N.Y. 10014 New York, N.Y. 10023 Telephone: (212) 255-6163 Telephone: (212) 636-6850
Birth
New York City July 12, 1951
Professional Employment
Professor, Fordham University School of Law, 140 West 62nd Street, New York, New York 10023, 1995-present (Associate Professor, 1987-1995)
Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton, 875 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022, 1983-1987
Law Clerk to the Honorable Ralph K. Winter, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1982-1983
Visiting Appointments
Visiting International Professor, LUISS Guido Carli, Viale Romania 32, 00197 Rome, October - November 2011
Visiting Professor, Institut de Droit Compare Edouard Lambert, Universite Jean Moulin, Lyon 3, 6, cours Albert Thomas, B.P. 8242-69355 Lyon Cedex 08, November-December 2009
Visiting Professor, Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, Spring 1996
Admissions to Practice
Second Circuit, l989 New York, 1984 Southern District of New York, 1984 Eastern District of New York, 1984 Marc M. Arkin–2
Courses Taught
Federal Civil Procedure Conflict of Laws International Litigation in United States Courts Mass Tort Litigation Criminal Law Church-State Relations
Legal Education
Yale Law School, J.D., 1982
Honors: Director, Yale Moot Court of Appeals, 1981-1982
Graduate Education
Yale University, Ph.D., American Religious History, 1983 (M.Phil., 1976; M.A., 1975)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Philosophy, 1973-1974
Honors: Graduate Comprehensive Examinations with Distinction, Yale University, 1977 Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University, 1977-1978 University Fellowship, Yale University, 1974-1977 University Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973-1974
Undergraduate Education
Oberlin College, A.B. in History and Philosophy, 1973
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa Marc M. Arkin–3
Writing and Research
Articles:
"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)
"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)
"'The Intractable Principle:' David Hume, James Madison, Religion, and the Tenth Federalist," 39 Am. J. Legal History 148 (1995)
"Rethinking the Right to Criminal Appeal," 39 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 503 (1992)
"The Prisoner's Dilemma: Life in the Lower Federal Courts After Teague v. Lane," 69 N.C. L. Rev. 371 (1991)
"Speedy Criminal Appeal: A Right Without A Remedy," 74 Minn. L. Rev. 437 (1990) (reprinted in 3 Crim. Prac. L. Rev. 225 (1990))
Essays
With Pia Calderon Cuadrado, Professor of Procedural Law, University of Valencia, “Contra la Armonization Positiva–Y Procesal-en la Union Europea, in La Armonizacion del Derecho Procesal tras el Tratado de Lisboa 70, (The Example of the United States Under the Full Faith and Credit Clause) (Thomson Reuters/Aranzadi 2012)
The Many Roles of Fanny Kemble, 29 The New Criterion 3 (November 2010)
Trollope and the Law, 26 The New Criterion 23 (October 2007) Marc M. Arkin–4
Book Reviews and Commentary
Book Review: “Liar, Liar,” Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, 31 The New Criterion 55 (March 2013)
Book Review: "Fuller House," John Matteson, The Lives of Margaret Fuller, 30 The New Criterion 71 (February 2012)
Book Review: "Christian Chronicles," Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, 29 The New Criterion 7 (March 2011)
Book Review: "More Antique Than Rome," Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life, 29 The New Criterion 3 (January 2011)
Book Review: Life of a Life Raft: Henry Chadwick, Augustine of Hippo: A Life, 28 The New Criterion 72 (January 2010)
Book Review: Rachel Hope Cleves, The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery, American Historical Review 1449 (December 2009)
Book Review: Highway to Heaven: Peter J. Theusen, Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine, The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2009 at pg. A13
Book Review: New World, New Ideas: Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates, The Wall Street Journal, November 25, 2008, at pg A13
Book Review: Lincoln Season, James M. McPherson, Tried By War, 27 The New Criterion 68 (January 2009)
Book Review: Such, Such Were the Joys of the Uninhibited Life: Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, The Wall Street Journal, 1/25/2007, at pg. D7.
Book Review: An American Parodox: Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, and Francois Furstenberg, In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery and the Making of a Nation, 25 The New Criterion (September 2006)
Book Review: On the March: David Hackett Fischer, Liberty & Freedom: A Visual History of America’s Founding Ideas, 23 The New Criterion, No. 10 (June 2005) 81
Book Review: After the Howling Wilderness, A Haven for Dissent: Edwin S. Gaustad, Roger Williams, The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2005, D10 Marc M. Arkin–5
Current Developments in Federal Civil Practice: Federal Jurisdiction and Pleading Requirements, in Current Developments in Federal Civil Practice 2005, Practicing Law Institute, Winter 2005
“A Democratic and Republican Religion,” in Religion, Manners and Morals in the US and Great Britain, The New Criterion, eds., Fall 2004
Book Review: The Napoleonic Code: Alistair Horne, The Age of Napoleon, 22 The New Criterion 78 (June 2004)
Book Review: Why We Won: David Hackett Fisher, Washington’s Crossing, 22 The New Criterion 66 (May 2004)
Book Review: Leap of Faith: John E. Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, 22 The New Criterion 101 (December 2003)
Book Review: Counterfactual Hoping: Roger G. Kennedy, Mr. Jefferson’s Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, and the Louisiana Purchase, The New York Sun, March 5, 2003, p. 13
Book Review: Big Ben: Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin, 21 The New Criterion 67 (October 2002)
Book Review: A Heated Debate About Religion: Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone, Out of the Flames, The Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2002
Book Review: Democracy & Pugnacity: Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic, 20 The New Criterion 73 (November 2001)
Book Review: The Word in New Words: Benson Bobrick, Wide as the Waters, The Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2001 at A18, col. 2
Book Review: From Englishmen to Americans: Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans, 19 The New Criterion 66 (April 2001)
Book Review: The Small House: Peter Brooks, Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature, 19 The New Criterion 76 (January 2001)
Book Review: William C. Dowling, Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Dennie and "The Port Folio,"1801-1812, Journal of American History 656 (September 2000) Marc M. Arkin–6
Book Review: Tolle, Lege: Allan D. Fitzgerald, ed., Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia, 18 The New Criterion 70 (March 2000)
Book Review: Blinded by the Light: Ann Taves, Fits, Trances and Visions, The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2000 at A20 col. 3
Book Review: Saturated with the Word: Michael Warner, ed., American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr., 18 The New Criterion 67 (October 1999)
Book Review: 'Signs and Wonders': Millennial Magic: Melvin Jules Burkiet, Signs and Wonders, The Baltimore Sun, April 18, 1999 at F12 col. 4
Products Liability and the Threat to Contraception, The Manhattan Institute, Center for Judicial Studies, Civil Justice Memo No. 36 (February 1999)
Book Review: An Unlikely Prophet: Gillian Gill, Mary Baker Eddy, 17 The New Criterion 70 (January 1999)
"Edward Beecher," in The American National Biography (January 1999, Oxford University Press)
His Nativity: Why Christmas is Celebrated on December 25, Wall Street Journal, December 18, 1998
Book Review: Radical Moderation: Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry, Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law, 16 The New Criterion 65 (May 1998)
Book Review: Little Kazin and Big God: Alfred Kazin, God and the American Writer, 16 The New Criterion 69 (March 1998)
Book Review: The Irony of It All: Martin E. Marty, Modern American Religion, Volume I (The Irony of It All 1893 - 1919) and Volume II (The Noise of Conflict 1919 - 1941), 16 The New Criterion 64 (January 1998)
What Comes Between Woman and Better Birth Control is Lawsuits, The Women's Quarterly 30 (Autumn 1997)
Insider View: "Product Liability Litigation Scared Contraceptive Makers," Boston Business Journal, June 13, 1997 at 30.
Book Review: A Sea of Trouble: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life, 15 The New Criterion 68 (January 1997) Marc M. Arkin–7
Book Review: The Millennium Mill: Harold Bloom, Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection, 15 The New Criterion 59 (October 1996)
Book Review: Expert Testimony?: Peter Brooks & Paul Gewirtz, eds., Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law, 15 The New Criterion 131 (September 1996)
Book Review: 'Blue Streak' - X-words, now and forever: Richard Dooling, Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech, and Sexual Harassment, The Baltimore Sun, Aug. 4, 1996 at F5. col. 6
Book Review: Diluting Edwards: Joseph A. Conforti, Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture, 4 The New Criterion 70 (April 1996)
Book Review: Elder Economics: Richard Posner, Aging and Old Age, 101 Commentary 56 (February 1996)
Soundings: Order in the Court, City Journal, Winter 1996 at 56
Book Review: Lynne V. Cheney vs. Deconstructionist Twaddle: Lynne V. Cheney, Telling the Truth: Why Our Culture and Our Country Have Stopped Making Sense and What to Do About It, The Baltimore Sun, Oct. 29, 1995 at F5. col. 6
Book Review: A Crash Course in the Latest Legalese: Richard Delgado, The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations About America and Race, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 1, 1995 at A5, col. 4
Book Review: Wrongs From Rights: Philip K. Howard, The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America, 100 Commentary 56 (July 1995)
Book Review: Opus Dei: Secretive, Powerful, and Growing: Joan Estruch, Saints and Schemers: Opus Dei and Its Paradoxes, The Baltimore Sun, July 2, 1995 at F5, col. 5
Book Review: Deconstructing the Devil: Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan, Wall Street Journal, June 2, 1995 at A 16, col. 4
Book Review: Harvey Cox, Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-first Century, 37 J. Church & State 349 (1995).
Book Review: Lo, the Man Behind the Bible: David Daniell, William Tyndale: A Biography, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 22, 1994, at A12, col. 5 Marc M. Arkin–8
Book Review: A Key to Mrs. Eddy: Robert David Thomas, "With Bleeding Footsteps": Mary Baker Eddy's Path to Religious Leadership, 13 The New Criterion 71 (September 1994)
Book Review: The Tenth Justice: Gerald Gunther, Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge, 12 The New Criterion 75 (May 1994)
Book Review: Big Little Lady: Joan P. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, 12 The New Criterion 72 (March 1994)
Book Review: Does God Have A Future: Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, 12 The New Criterion 73 (January 1994)
Book Review: Joyful Noyes: Spencer Klaw, Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community, 12 The New Criterion 73 (December 1993)
Book Review: The Great Awakener: John E. Smith, Jonathan Edwards: Puritan, Preacher, Philosopher, 11 The New Criterion 59 (May 1993) (reprinted in Marie Lazzari, ed., Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (Farmington Hills, Michigan 2000)).
Book Review: Song of Himself: Harold Bloom on God: Harold Bloom, The New American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation, 10 The New Criterion 60 (May 1992)
"Edward Yorio: A Remembrance," 60 Fordham L. Rev. 814 (1992)
Book Review: Judging by Reputation: Richard Posner, Cardozo: A Study in Reputation, 60 Fordham L. Rev. 739 (1992).
Book Review: Michael Lienesch, New Order of the Ages, The American Scholar (Autumn 1990)
Book Review: Alan Watson, Failures of the Legal Imagination, The American Scholar (Autumn 1989)
"A Dilemma on Diversity," The National Law Journal, October 10, 1988
Book Review: Marie C. Caskey, Chariot of Fire, Journal of the Congregational Library (Winter 1979) Marc M. Arkin–9
Other Publications:
Weinstein, Korn & Miller, New York Practice, revision of sections dealing with N.Y.C.P.L.R. Article 51 (Matthew Bender 1995)
Weinstein, Korn & Miller, New York Practice, revision of sections dealing with N.Y.C.P.L.R. §§ 5015-5021 (Matthew Bender 1994, with Jill E. Fisch)
New York's New Commencement by Filing Law: An Analysis of Practice under Chapter 216 of the Law of 1992 (Matthew Bender 1992)
Weinstein, Korn & Miller, New York Practice, revision of sections dealing with N.Y.C.P.L.R. §§ 7801-7803 (1992)
Weinstein, Korn & Miller, New York Practice, revision of sections dealing with N.Y.C.P.L.R. §§ 2601-2609, 8013-8022 (1991)
Weinstein, Korn & Miller, New York Practice, revision of sections dealing with N.Y.C.P.L.R. §§ 2401-2402 (1991)
Weinstein, Korn & Miller, New York Practice, revision of sections dealing with N.Y.C.P.L.R. §§ 3216-3217 (1990)
Weinstein, Korn & Miller, New York Practice, revision of sections dealing with N.Y.C.P.L.R. §§ 1001 through 1004 (1989)
Weinstein, Korn & Miller, New York Practice, revision of sections dealing with N.Y.C.P.L.R. §§ 313 and 314 (1988)
"Edward Beecher: The Development of an Ecclesiastical Career, 1803-1844," Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University 1983
Works in Progress:
Frederick Brinsley: A Life
Presentations and Conferences:
Lecture: The Origins of Religious Liberty in the United States, sponsored by the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs, John Cabot University, Rome, May 2012 Marc M. Arkin–10
Lecture: International Litigation in U.S. Courts: The Extraterritorial Application of Securities Law, Roma Tre University, Rome, November 2012
Participant, “Social Control and Liberty in the Jurisprudence of Roscoe Pound,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, September 2006
Presentation for PLI “Federal Civil Practice Program,” March 2005
Presentation for PLI “Federal Civil Practice Program, March 2004
Paper Presentation and Participant, Conference on “Religion, Manners, and Morals in the United States and Great Britain,” April 29 and 30, 2004, sponsored by the Carthage Foundation
Participant, “Law and Liberty in the Writings of John Locke,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, April 2003
Panel Member, "Women's Health, Law, and the Junking of Science," (New York, sponsored by the Independent Women's Forum) March 20, 1998
Conflict of Laws and International Copyright, Fordham University School of Law Conference on International Intellectual Property Law and Policy, April 1997.
Panel Member, "Contraception and the Law," Conference on Women's Health: Law and the Junking of Science (Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Independent Women's Forum) February 1997
Moderator, Junk Science and the Law (sponsored by The Manhattan Institute) February 1996
Paper Commentary, Conference on Hume and 18th-Century America (College of William & Mary, sponsored by the Hume Society and the Institute for Early American History and Culture) April 1995
Other Employment
Assistant in Instruction, Psychology and the Law, Yale College (Department of Psychology), 1980
Acting Instructor and Teaching Fellow, Yale University (Departments of History, American Studies, and Yale Divinity School), 1975-1978
Teaching Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Department of Philosophy), 1973-1974