About
*Lecturer II, most recently taught 2019-2020
Charles Adside, III is a licensed Michigan attorney and constitutional law scholar. He teaches courses on the American Presidency and U.S. Constitutional Law in the Political Science Department.
In 2006, he graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Arts, concentrating in political science. As a student, Adside became involved in student government as a Representative for the College of LS&A for the Michigan Student Assembly. He also served as Co-Chairman of the Community Service Commission while serving on student government. In 2011, Adside received his juris doctorate from the Michigan State University College of Law. There, he was a teaching and research assistant for a constitutional law professor. He was awarded the Most Distinguished Student Award in 2008 and 2010, becoming the only student to receive that award twice.
Appointed as a Lecturer in 2013, Adside and his research teams have published 8 times on an array of topics, ranging from electronic communication to higher education reform and executive power. They include the following law review articles: The Establishment Clause Forbids Coercion Not Cooperation Between Church and State: How the Direct Coercion Test Should Replace the Lemon Test, ___ N.D. L. Rev. ___ (2020); Shutting Down Speech 101: Saving Campus Free Speech from the Heckler's Veto and the Speech Gerrymander, 34 B.Y.U. J. Pub. L. 217 (2020); It’s A Blowhorn, Not A Dog-Whistle: How President Trump’s Travel Ban Orders, Not His Statements, Are Enough To Establish A Violation Under the Religion Clauses, 47 Hastings Const. L.Q. 267 (2020).
The Innocent Villain: Involuntary Manslaughter by Text, 52 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 731 (2019). Notably, this publication was cited in a Writ for Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court in Commonwealth v. Carter.
The Caitlyn Dilemma, 37 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 457 (2019); Undue Schizophrenia: Split Decisions, Confused Scholars, and Reversing Unworkable Abortion Precedent, 54 Willamette L. Rev. 219 (2018); Constitutional Damage Control: Same-Sex Marriage, Smith's Hybrid Rights Doctrine, and Protecting the Preacher Man After Obergefell, 27 Geo. Mason U. C.R.L.J. 145 (2017); Replay That Tune: Defending Bakke on Stare Decisis Grounds, 64 Clev. St. L. Rev. 519 (2016).
He is also the co-author of Unmuting the Volume: Fisher, Affirmative Action Jurisprudence, and the legacy of Racial Silence, 22 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1011 (2014).
Adside currently serves as legal counsel for the Michigan Great Lakes Second Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, Church of God In Christ, Inc. That organization represents over 15 churches in the state. He serves as an Assistant Executive Secretary for the Jurisdiction as well.
Field of Study
- Constitutional Law
- American Presidency
