Secretary of the Board
Professor Marie Failinger

Marie A. Failinger, Secretary of the Board of Church Innovations, is a Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law, where she has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law and Religion.

Among her professional associations, she serves as secretary of the governing board of the National Equal Justice Library, the Editorial Council of the Journal of Lutheran Ethics, and has served on the Executive Committees of the AALS Sections on Professional Responsibility, Law and Religion , and Poverty Law.

She serves on committees of Minnesota Women Lawyers; and the governing boards of Central Minnesota Legal Services and the American Indian Policy Center, as well as on several advisory groups. She has published in legal and theological journals in professional responsibility, constitutional law, law and religion, and poverty law.

Professor Failinger earned her J.D. at Valparaiso University School of Law, her LL.M. at Yale Law School, and served as a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Before she entered teaching, she was a managing attorney at Legal Services Organization of Indiana.

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