{"id":3702,"date":"2026-09-02T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/?page_id=3702"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:02:39","slug":"josh-mcdaniel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/fellows-scholars\/research-fellows\/josh-mcdaniel\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh McDaniel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Josh McDaniel is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3666 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Josh-MacDaniel-profile-cropped-2-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Josh-MacDaniel-profile-cropped-2-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Josh-MacDaniel-profile-cropped-2-841x1024.jpg 841w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Josh-MacDaniel-profile-cropped-2-768x935.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Josh-MacDaniel-profile-cropped-2-1261x1536.jpg 1261w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Josh-MacDaniel-profile-cropped-2-1682x2048.jpg 1682w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Josh-MacDaniel-profile-cropped-2-500x609.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Josh-MacDaniel-profile-cropped-2-740x901.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/constitution-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Josh-MacDaniel-profile-cropped-2-980x1193.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/> school\u2019s Religious Freedom Clinic, where he supervises students representing a diverse group of religious clients.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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\u2014how 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Josh is also a Bowden Non-Resident Fellow at UT Austin School of Law\u2019s Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and an Associated Scholar with the Centre for Law and Religious Freedom at Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w, Poland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before entering clinical teaching, Josh was previously a trial litigator at Munger, Tolles &amp; Olson and an appellate litigator at Horvitz &amp; 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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh McDaniel is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the school\u2019s Religious Freedom Clinic, where he supervises students representing a diverse group of religious clients. 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