Lutheran Views of Secular Law: Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues

Marie D. Failinger (1952–2025) held law degrees from Valparaiso Law School and Yale Law School. She taught at Hamline Law School for nearly four decades and edited The Journal of Law and Religion for twenty-four years. During her teaching career, she helped found the Church Innovations Institute and the Consortium for the National Equal Justice Library. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Journal of Law and Religion Achievement Award and the Minnesota Justice Foundation Law School Professor Award. She served as coeditor of the books On Secular Governance; The Poverty Law Canon; Feminism, Law, and Religion; and Lutheran Theology and Secular Law.