About
Charles Adside, III is a licensed Michigan attorney and constitutional law scholar. He teaches courses on the Presidency and the Supreme Court 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.
Adside wrote Replay That Tune: Defending Bakke on Stare Decisis Grounds, 64 Clev. St. L. Rev. 519 (2016). There, he argues that removing racial preferences from university admissions would devastate higher education because universities have created entire bureaucracies and implemented practices designed to steer diverse students to pursue enrollment in order to attain educational benefits in the classroom. Another article, Constitutional Damage Control: Same-Sex Marriage, Smith's Hybrid Rights Doctrine, and Protecting the Preacher Man After Obergefell, is published in 27 Geo. Mason U. C.R.L.J. 145 (2017). That article finds that Obergefell v. Hodges contains logic that could forbid the states from allowing religious officials who discriminate against couples on the basis of sexual orientation the power to perform civil marriages. Currently, Adside is working on a forthcoming article, Undue Schizophrenia: Split Decisions, Confused Scholars, and Reversing Unworkable Abortion Precedent, which critically examines the Court’s abortion jurisprudence under the doctrine of stare decisis. That article will be published in the Williamette Law Review in Spring 2018.
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). This Article proposes that students participate in the admissions process at small learning communities devoted to interracial exchange on college campuses as a means to encourage broader discussions on race among students.
Adside currently serves as legal counsel for the Michigan Great Lakes Second Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, Church of God In Christ, Inc. That organization represents nearly 20 churches in Michigan and Canada.
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