'''Carl H. Esbeck''' is the R.B. Price Distinguished Professor and the Isabelle Wade & Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law. He joined the law faculty in 1981. He has published in the areas of church-state relations and civil rights. He has taken the lead in advancing a structural view of the establishment clause of the first amendment, and is also credited as the primary author of the original charitable choice language in the 1996 welfare reform bill.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Ten Commandments: A Handbook of Religious, Legal and Social Issues |author=Joseph P. Hester|year=2003|publisher=McFarland & Company|url=https://archive.org/details/tencommandmentsh0000hest|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/tencommandmentsh0000hest/page/111 111] |quote=Carl Esbeck -Carl Esbeck. |isbn=0-7864-1419-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Futures of Evangelicalism: Issues and Prospects |author= MR Robin Parry, Craig G. Bartholomew, Andrew West|year=2004|publisher=Kregel Publications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k5zsGIMlLQ0C&dq=%22Carl+Esbeck%22+-inauthor:%22Carl+Esbeck%22&pg=PA306|isbn=0-8254-2022-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush's Faith-based Initiatives |author1=Amy E. Black |author2=Douglas L. Koopman |author3=David K. Ryden |year=2004|publisher=Georgetown University|url=https://archive.org/details/oflittlefaith00amye|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/oflittlefaith00amye/page/33 33] |quote=Carl Esbeck. |isbn=1-58901-013-2}}</ref>
== Scholarship == Professor Esbeck regularly researches and publishes in the areas of religious liberties and civil rights.
=== Representative publications ===
Protestant Dissent and the Virginia Disestablishment, 1776—1786, 7 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 51 (2009).
The 60th Anniversary of the Everson Decision and America's Church-State Proposition, 23 Journal of Law and Religion 15 (2007–08).
Governance and the Religion Question: Voluntaryism, Disestablishment, and America's Church-State Proposition, 48 Journal of Church & State 202 (Spring 2006)
The Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations to Staff On a Religious Basis, CENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE (Sept, 2004), with Stanley W. Carlson-Thies & Ronald J. Sider.
Dissent and Disestablishment: The Church-State Settlement in the Early American Republic, 2004 BYU Law Review 1385 (2004).
Religious Organizations in the United States, A Study of Identity, Liberty, and the Law, (Carolina Academic Press, 2004). contributed 2 chapters to this book - Regulation of Religious Organizations via Governmental Financial Assistance and Charitable Choice and the Critics.
The Establishment Clause as a Structural Restraint: Validations and Ramifications, 18 JOURNAL OF LAW & POLITICS 445 (2002).
Statement Before the United States House of Representatives Concerning Charitable Choice and the Community Solutions Act, 16 NOTRE DAME JOURNAL OF LAW, ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 567 (2002).
Differentiating the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses, 42 Journal of Church and State 311 (2000).
Myths, Miscues and Misconceptions: No-Aid Separationism and the Establishment Clause, 13 NOTRE DAME JOURNAL OF LAW, ETHICS & PUBLIC POLICY 285 (1999).
On Rights and Restraints, 94 LIBERTY 22-29 (March/April 1999).
The Neutral Treatment of Religion and Faith-Based Social Service Providers: Charitable Choice and Its Critics, in WELFARE REFORM AND FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS 173 (Derek Davis & Barry Hankins editors, 1999).
The Establishment Clause as a Structural Restraint on Governmental Power, 84 IOWA L. REV. 1-113 (1998)
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==External links== * [https://law.missouri.edu/person/carl-h-esbeck/ Faculty Bio] * {{Scopus id}}
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