Gabrielle Girgis

Postdoctoral Fellow

Gabrielle M. Girgis, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She recently completed her doctorate in Politics at Princeton University, with concentrations in political theory and public law. Convinced of the importance of religious liberty for the common good, Dr. Girgis researches and writes on religion’s special protection in American law. Her dissertation on that topic was nominated in 2020 by Princeton’s Politics Department for a Distinguished Dissertation Award given annually to “original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline.” She has written and published on religious liberty topics for conferences, academic journals, and other academic and popular venues.

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Gabrielle M. Girgis, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She recently completed her doctorate in Politics at Princeton University, with concentrations in political theory and public law. Convinced of the importance of religious liberty for the common good, Dr. Girgis researches and writes on religion’s special protection in American law. Her dissertation on that topic was nominated in 2020 by Princeton’s Politics Department for a Distinguished Dissertation Award given annually to “original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline.” She has written and published on religious liberty topics for conferences, academic journals, and other academic and popular venues.

Dr. Girgis is also interested in the history of political thought and its contemporary applications, the intersection of religion and politics in liberal societies, and natural law ethical theory. Prior to graduate study, she served as Managing Editor of Public Discourse, and received her B.A. in Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies, with a minor in philosophy.

Most importantly, Dr. Girgis is happily married to her husband Sherif and finds great joy in their two little girls. They have spoken publicly on several occasions about integrating marriage, work, and family life.

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An Architect Of Religious Liberty Doctrines For The Roberts Courts

Gabrielle Girgis

Justice Alito’s work on religion law is a hallmark of his jurisprudence. He has shaped this field more than any other sitting Justice, and perhaps even more than any other member of the Court in its history.

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The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, Erika Bachiochi

Gabrielle Girgis

Erika Bachiochi, in her groundbreaking book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, makes novel contributions to feminist thought, rooted in the concerns of the earliest women’s rights advocates.

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A Little-Noted Puzzle in Religion Law, Post-Bremerton

Gabrielle Girgis

With Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court finally drove the last nail in the coffin of the Lemon test for Establishment Clause violations (as Justice Scalia said it should do years ago). Over several decades, the Lemon test’s importance had dwindled to the point of having been de facto reversed.

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Rights Talk In A Post-Liberal Age: Mary Ann Glendon’s Enduring Insight Into The American Rights…

Gabrielle Girgis

Gross human rights violations occur every day, often invisibly to most of us. Media coverage…

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The Federalist Society / August 11, 2022

What Will We March for Next Year?

Gabrielle Girgis

If Roe is overturned, this year’s national March for Life will go down as a historic one. Let us hope to see in future years a shift to marching in our home states, for the recognition everywhere of a new vision of America, one which upholds the true rights of women and children, and our duties toward them.

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Newsweek / January 24, 2022

The Left’s Inconsistency on Third-Party Harms of the Equality Act

Gabrielle Girgis

We should all support the goal of eradicating unjust discrimination, but must reduce the high costs that are so perniciously woven into the Equality Act.

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Newsweek / March 1, 2021