Josh McDaniel is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the school’s Religious Freedom Clinic, where he supervises students representing a diverse group of religious clients. His scholarship examines free exercise and religious accommodation under the Constitution, federal and state laws, and international legal frameworks, with particular attention to religious minorities—how the law protects them, how the branches share responsibility for their religious liberty, and how their advocacy has secured constitutional freedoms for religious and secular Americans alike.

Josh is also a Bowden Non-Resident Fellow at UT Austin School of Law’s Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and an Associated Scholar with the Centre for Law and Religious Freedom at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Before entering clinical teaching, Josh was previously a trial litigator at Munger, Tolles & Olson and an appellate litigator at Horvitz & Levy, where he specialized in representing individual and organizational clients in both commercial and civil rights cases, with particular expertise in First Amendment and religious freedom issues. He clerked for the Honorable Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the Honorable Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.