John Min Kang
- Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Professor of Law
- Henry Weihofen Professor of Law
Education
- B.A., U.C. Berkeley
- J.D., UCLA
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
Contact Information
Ph.:
505-277-7776
Office:
1125
kang@law.unm.edu
Website
Profile
John Kang graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with High Honors from U.C. Berkeley. Afterwards, he attended the UCLA School of Law where he served as editor-in-chief of a law journal. Upon graduation from law school, he earned a doctorate in political science at the University of Michigan. Kang teaches constitutional law, and he writes about that, along with manliness, religion, public discourse, and other topics related to freedom and authority. More information about him, including a list of downloadable articles, can be found on his personal website.
Publications
Books & Book Chapters
Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness (Routledge, 2018).
Available at UNM Law Library
Patriarchy and Constitutional Origins in Constitutions and Gender (Helen Irving ed. 2017).
Available at Your Library
Manliness’s Paradox in Masculinities and Law: A Multidimensional Approach (Frank Rudy Cooper and Ann C. McGinley eds. 2012).
Available at UNM Law Library
Articles
Why the Actual Malice Test Should Be Eliminated, 50 FLA. ST. U. L. REV.__(forthcoming 2022).
Against Political Speech, 22 NEV. L.J. (forthcoming 2022).
The Political Urgency of Black Manhood: Frederick Douglass on Constitutional Theory, 52 N.M. L. REV. (forthcoming 2022).
Anomalous Anatomies, 21 NEV. L.J. 1061 (2021) (co-authored with Karissa Kang).
Available at: UNM-DR
Prove Yourselves: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Obsessions of Manliness, 118 W. VA. L. REV. 1067 (2016).
Available at: West Virginia Law Review
The Soldier and the Imbecile: How Holmes’s Manliness Fated Carrie Buck, 47 AKRON L. REV. 1055 (2015).
Available at: Akron Law Review
Fractured Manliness, 13 SEATTLE J. SOC. JUST. 399 (2014).
Available at: Seattle Journal for Social Justice
Does Manly Courage Exist?, 13 NEV. L. J. 467 (2013).
Available at: Nevada Law Journal
Martin v. Malcolm: Democracy, Nonviolence, Manhood, 114 W. VA. L. REV. 937 (2012).
Available at: West Virginia Law Review
In Praise of Hostility: Antiauthoritarianism as Free Speech Principle, 35 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 351 (2012).
Available at: Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
Hustler v. Falwell: Worst Case in the History of the World, Maybe the Universe, 12 NEV. L. J. 582 (2012).
Available at: Nevada Law Journal
The Burdens of Manliness, 33 HARV. J.L. & GENDER 477 (2010).
Available at: SSRN
Appeal to Heaven: On the Religious Origins of the Constitutional Right of Revolution, 18 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 281 (2010).
Available at: SSRN
Manliness and the Constitution, 32 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 261 (2009).
Available at: SSRN
Taking Safety Seriously: Using Liberalism to Fight Pornography, 15 MICH. J. GENDER & L. 1 (2008).
Available at: SSRN
Deliberating the Divine: On Extending the Justification from Truth to Religious Expression, 73 BROOK. L. REV. 1 (2007).
Available at: SSRN
John Locke’s Political Plan, or, There’s No Such Thing as Judicial Impartiality (and it’s a Good Thing, Too), 29 VT. L. REV. 7 (2004).
Available at: SSRN
The Irrelevance of Sincerity: Deliberative Democracy in the Supreme Court, 48 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 305 (2004).
Available at: SSRN
The Case for Insincerity, 29 STUD. L. POL. & SOC'Y 143 (2003).
Available at: SSRN
The Uses of Insincerity: Thomas Hobbes’s Theory of Law and Society, 29 LAW & LIT. 143 (2003).
Available at: SSRN
Between Aspiration and Alternity: Sotirios Barber and Robert Cover on Constitutional Fidelity, 22 STUD. L. POL. & SOC'Y 113 (2001).
Deconstructing the Ideology of White Aesthetics, 2 MICH. J. RACE & L. 283 (1997).Available at: Michigan Journal of Race & Law
Book Reviews
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Tataki, 2 UCLA ASIAN PAC. AM. L.J. 115 (1994).
Presentations
Against Actual Malice, First Judicial District Bar Association, CLE (2021).
Awards
Professor Pamela Burgy Minzner Award, 2020
St. Thomas University Law School Professor of the Year, 2007-2019
Horace H. Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Michigan, 2001
John W. Kingdon Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Michigan, 2001
Outstanding Undergraduate Concentration Adviser Award, University of Michigan, 2000
Impact
Deliberating the Divine: On Extending the Justification from Truth to Religious Expression, 73 BROOK. L. REV. 1 (2007).
Cited: U.S. v. Polizzi, 549 F.Supp.2d 308, 380 (2008) (E.D.N.Y.).
Does Manly Courage Exist?, 13 NEVADA L. J. 467 (2013).
ARTS & OPINION (2013) (online).
John Locke’s Political Plan, or, There’s No Such Thing as Judicial Impartiality (and it’s a Good Thing, Too), 29 VT. L. REV. 7 (2004).
Reprinted: Locke and Law (Thom Brooks ed. 2007)
