Scot M. Peterson

Scot M. Peterson

Email: scot.peterson@scotmpeterson.com

Mobile: +44 (0)7427-611134

Educational Employment

Current

• Queen’s College, Oxford University
• Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
• Bing Overseas Students Program, Stanford University
• Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

University of Oxford

• Bingham Research Fellow in Constitutional Studies, 2013-19
• Graduate Teaching
  • Comparative Government
  • British Politics
  • Thesis supervision for M.Phil. students (federal-local government relations; cruel and unusual punishment; popular constitutionalism)
• Lectures for Undergraduates
  • Comparative Government (Final Honour Schools)
  • UK Politics (Prelims)
  • British Politics and Government (Final Honour Schools)
• Undergraduate Teaching Training Officer
• Academic Editor, Politics in Spires

College Teaching and Lectureships

• Organizing Tutor in Politics
  • St Anne’s College: 2011-2013
  • Corpus Christi College: 2009-10, 2011-12, 2019-20
  • St Hugh’s College: 2010-11
• Stipendiary and Retained Lectureships
  • Pembroke College: 2010-13
  • Corpus Christi College: 2007-13
  • Balliol College: 2007-13

Papers Taught

• Politics Prelims (Introduction to Democratic Institutions)
• Politics 201, Comparative Government
• Politics 202, British Politics and Government, 1900-present
• Politics 204, Modern British Government
• Politics 205, Government and Politics of the United States

School of Politics and International Relations, Reading University, 2007-10

• Sessional Lecturer
  • United Kingdom Politics 1960-2005 (PO3UKP)
  • United States Government (PO2AmG)
  • Introduction to Politics

Award and Affiliations

• OxTalent, Oxford University Teaching Award (for use of Virtual Learning Environment), 2010, 2014
• William R. Miller Graduate Bursary (Scholarship), 2006
• Current Member:
  • American Political Science Association
  • UK Constitutional Law Group
  • Royal Historical Society
  • Ecclesiastical Law Society
• Martindale-Hubbell Rating (peer rating for attorneys in the United States): AV (highest professional competence and ethical standards)

Publications

Legally Married: Love and Law in the UK and the US (Edinburgh University Press, October 2013)(with Iain McLean)

Book Chapters

• Religious Freedom and Anti-Discrimination in the US and Europe: Generally Applicable Laws and Possible Exceptions’ in A. Carling (ed.), The Social Equality of Religion or Belief (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016) (with Iain McLean).
• ‘A Uniform British Establishment’ in Mark Chapman, Judith Maltby and William Whyte, eds., The Established Church: Past, Present and Future (T&T Clark, 2011) (with Iain McLean).
• ‘Recent Developments In Church-State Relations In Scotland’ in R. Morris (ed.) Church and State in 21^st Century Britain  (Palgrave, 2009) (with Frank Cranmer and Marjory MacLean).

 Articles

• ‘Heresthetic and strategic choice in a constitutional moment: the abdication of Edward VIII’ British Politics (forthcoming 2021) available online at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41293-021-00178-4.
• ‘Of Crises, Constitutionalism and Irresponsible Advisers’ Political Quarterly (forthcoming 2021) available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12985 (with Iain McLean).
• ‘Secularity and Secularism in the United Kingdom: On the Way to the First Amendment’ Brigham Young University Law Review 2011:637 (with Iain McLean).
• ‘Entrenching the Establishment and Free Exercise of Religion in the Written UK Constitution’ International Journal of Constitutional Law 9(1):230 (2011) (with Iain McLean).
• ‘Adam Smith at the Constitutional Convention’ Loyola Law Review 56:95 (2010) (with Iain McLean).
• ‘Rational Choice, Religion and the Marketplace: Where Does Adam Smith Fit In?’ Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48(1):186 (2009).
• ‘Employment, Sex Discrimination and the Churches: The Percy Case’ Ecclesiastical L.J.  8:392  (July 2006) (with Frank Cranmer).
• ‘Of Wheat, the Church in Walesand the West LothianQuestion’ Welsh History Review /Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru 23(3):151 (2007) (with Iain McLean).
• ‘Beerheide v. Suthers: A Case Study Concerning Religion in Prisons in the U.S.A.’ Ecclesiastical L.J. 8:67 (January 2005).

Reviews

• John Maiden, National Religion and the Prayer Book Controversy, 1927–28, Parliamentary History 30(2): 279 (2011).

• Anthony Bradney, Law and Faith in a Secular Age, Ecclesiastical L.J. 12: 252 (May 2010).

• Kent Greenawalt, Religion and the Constitution: Establishment and Fairness, Ecclesiastical L.J. 11: 229 (May 2009).

• Douglas Stalker, ed. GRUE! The New Riddle of Induction, Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue Canadienne de Comptes rendus en Philosophie (June, 1995).

Working Papers/Under Submission

• Constitutional Entrenchment and Change in a Political Constitution: The Case of the British Churches, 1886-1936 (book manuscript based upon DPhil research, under preparation).

• Some Economic, Demographic and Political Aspects of the Disruption of the Church of Scotland: A Rational Response to Regulation (manuscript under preparation), presented at the Symposium on Religion and Politics, Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Religion and Politics, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, 2009

Thesis Title: The Establishment and Disestablishment of Religion in Great Britain, 1906-1936, A Comparative Historical Study

Supervisor: Professor Iain McLean, Nuffield College Oxford

Examiners: Professor David Robertson, St Hugh’s College, Oxford; and Professor Colin Kidd, University of Glasgow and All Souls’ College, Oxford

Juris Doctor, University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), 1989

Master of Arts, The University of Chicago, 1984

Thesis Title: The Clear Limits of Judicial Power

Supervisors: Professor Dennis J. Hutchinson and Professor J. David Greenstone

Bachelor of Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1981 (Phi Beta Kappa; magna cum laude in Philosophy)

Legal Employment

• 1996-2004: Koff, Corn & Berger, Denver Colorado
  • Complex civil rights, civil and commercial litigation, including trials and appeals
• 1989-1995: Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, Denver Colorado
  • Commercial litigation including commercial bankruptcy and complex financial litigation