Professor Chad Flanders joins SLU LAW after clerking for Judge Michael McConnell on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2008-2009) and Justice Warren Matthews of the Alaska Supreme Court (2007-2008). Flanders has a B.A. in Classics and Philosophy from Hillsdale College, MI, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago.

His J.D. is from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor and senior editor of the Yale Law Journal, and submissions chair for the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics. Flanders has published articles and reviews in the areas of election law, punishment, religion, and the philosophy of Adam Smith.

He has written opinion-editorials in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Hartford Courant, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His work on Bush v. Gore has been cited in federal and state court cases and in the New York Times. Flanders is a member of the Alaska Bar.