Ira C. Lupu
Ira C. Lupu

Ira C. Lupu is the F. Elwood & Eleanor Davis Professor of Law Emeritus at George Washington University. He is a nationally recognized scholar in constitutional law, with an emphasis in his writings on the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Together with his colleague Professor Robert Tuttle, Professor Lupu is the co-author of Secular Government, Religious People (Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2014) and many law journal articles, including "The Mystery of Unanimity in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Church & School v. EEOC," 20 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1265 (2017) and "#MeToo Meets the Ministerial Exception: Sexual Harassment Claims by Clergy and the First Amendment's Religion Clauses, 25 Wm. & Mary J. Race, Gender, & Soc. Jus. 249 (2019).

Columns by Ira C. Lupu
The Perils of Relying on the Wrong Clause—Grounding the Ministerial Exception at the Supreme Court

GW Law professors Ira C. Lupu and Robert W. Tuttle explain why the path the U.S. Supreme Court might be about to take in ministerial exception cases—relying on the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment—is dangerously misguided. Lupu and Tuttle argue that the ministerial exception rests primarily on the Establishment Clause and is strictly limited to employment decisions about who leads or controls a faith community, or who transmits a faith.