Anthony Michael Kreis
Assistant Professor of Law- Education
Ph.D., University of Georgia
J.D., Washington and Lee University
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Specializations
Administrative Law
Civil Liberties
Constitutional Law
Employment and Labor
Jurisprudence
Legal History
Legislation
- Biography
Professor Anthony Michael Kreis joined Georgia State University College of Law faculty in 2020, and holds a courtesy appointment with the department of Political Science. At the College of Law, he teaches constitutional law and employment discrimination. Professor Kreis’s academic interests span the areas of constitutional law, civil rights, legislation, the law of democracy, and American political development.
His research uses qualitative empirical methods and doctrinal analysis to assess how social change and the law interact and affect each other. A great deal of Professor Kreis’s research focuses on the relationship between American political history and the development of law over time.
Professor Kreis has published articles in several law reviews, including the George Washington Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Georgia Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. His book, "Constitutional Law and the Force of History," is currently under contract with the University of California Press. Online companions to the Texas Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Harvard Law Review have also featured his work. He regularly contributes legal commentary and analysis to international and national media including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Public Radio, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the BBC (British Broadcast Corporation) and the ABC (Australian Broadcast Corporation).
Active in law reform efforts, Professor Kreis has participated in civil rights litigation and civil rights legislative initiatives. He co-authored amicus briefs in major civil rights cases before the United States Supreme Court, including Bostock v. Clayton County and Comcast v. National Association of African American-Owned Media. In addition to appearances in state legislatures across the country, he has testified numerous times before the Georgia General Assembly about marriage, civil rights, employment discrimination, LGBTQ rights, and religious liberty. In 2017, Professor Kreis authored the Illinois state law banning gay and transgender panic defenses in murder trials, the second law of its kind in the United States, which has served as a model for other jurisdictions.
Before coming to Georgia State Law, Professor Kreis taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He also completed a Ph.D. in political science and public administration at the University of Georgia. Kreis was a visiting scholar-in-residence at Emory University School of Law while a doctoral student. Before his time at the University of Georgia, Professor Kreis earned his law degree from Washington and Lee University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Publications
Books
Anthony Michael Kreis, Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development (2024).
Book Chapters
Anthony Michael Kreis, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. 573 U.S. 682 (2014): Judgment, in Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten 300 (Kimberly Mutcherson, ed. 2020).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Family Law and Civil Rights Movements, inThe Contested Place of Religion in Familiy Law 563 (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed. 2018).
Anthony Michael Kreis & Robert K. Christensen, Courts and Policy in the United States, in Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (Domonic A. Bearfield & Melvin J. Dubnick, eds. Routledge 3d ed. 2015).
Articles
Anthony Michael Kreis, Patterns of Panic, 68 St. Louis U. L.J. 905 (2024).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Unlawful Genders, 85 Law & Contemp. Probs. 103 (2022)
Anthony Kreis, The New Redeemers, 55 Ga. L. Rev. 1483 (2021).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Dead Hand Vogue, 54 U. Rich. L. Rev. 705 (2020).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Defensive Glass Ceilings, 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 147 (2020).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Policing the Painted and Powdered, 41 Cardozo L. Rev. 399 (2019).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Delete Your Account, 55 Idaho L. Rev. 199 (2019).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Stages of Constitutional Grief: Democratic Constitutionalism and the Marriage Revolution, 20 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 871 (2018).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Against Gay Potemkin Villages: Title VII and Sexual Orientation, 96 Tex. L. Rev. Online 1 (2017).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Picking Spinach, 50 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 395 (2018).
Anthony Michael Kreis, A Fresh Look at Title VII: Sexual Orientation Discrimination as Sex Discrimination, 35 Ill. Pub. Emp. Rel. Rep. 2 (2018).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Amputating Rights-Making, 69 Hastings L.J. 95 (2017).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Marriage Demosprudence, 2016 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1679 (2016).
Anthony Kreis, John Szmer, & Robert K. Christensen, Comparative Judicial Efficiency: Examining Case Disposition in Five Countries' Courts of Last Resort, in Comparative Law and Economics (Theodore Eisenberg & Giovanni B. Ramello, eds. 2016).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Marriage Equality in State and Nation, 22 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 747 (2014).
Robin Fretwell Wilson & Anthony Michael Kreis, Embracing Compromise: Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty in the Political Process, 15 Geo. J. Gender & L. 485 (2014).
Anthony Michael Kreis & Robert K. Christensen, Law and Public Policy, 41 no. S1 Pol'y Stud. J. S38 (2013).
Anthony Michael Kreis & Robin Fretwell Wilson, The Overlooked Benefit of Minimalism: Perry v. Brown and the Future of Marriage Equality, 37 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 35 (2013).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Gay Gentrification: Whitewashed Fictions of LGBT Privilege and the New Interest-Convergence Dilemma, 31 Law & Ineq. 117 (2012).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Lawrence Meets Libel: Squaring Constitutional Norms with Sexual-Orientation Defamation, 122 Yale L.J. Online 125 (2012).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Educational Media Co. at Virginia Tech, Inc. v. Swecker, 62 S.C. L. Rev. 533 (2011).
Popular Press
Anthony Michael Kreis, Professor: Does Georgia's Constitution protect the right to an abortion?
Georgia has the longest constitutional tradition of protecting a right to privacy in the United States, Savannah Morning News (July 21, 2022).
Anthony Michael Kreis, Schools Biased Against LGBT People Should Be Banned From Scholarships, Chi. Sun-Times, Sept 1, 2017.
Anthony Michael Kreis, End "Panic Defense" for Attacks on Gays in Illinois, Chi. Sun-Times, Mar. 14, 2017.
Anthony Kreis, Athens' Anti-Discrimination Effort Doesn't Go Far Enough, Athens Banner-Herald, July 29, 2016.
Anthony M. Kreis, Religious Freedom Law Could Hurt Ga., Atl. J.-Const., Sept. 13, 2015, at A17.
Anthony Michael Kreis, Religious Rights, Yes; Bias Against LGBT People, No, Atl. J.-Const., July 31, 2015, at A14.
Anthony Michael Kreis, Georgia Legislators Should Protect All State's Citizens, Atl. J.-Const., Apr. 17, 2015, at A12.
Robin Fretwell Wilson & Anthony Michael Kreis, Expand Freedoms for All, Atl. J.-Const., Apr. 4, 2014, at A12.
Anthony Michael Kreis, Same-Sex Marriage: Court May Get a Chance to Right Its Own Wrong, Times (Trenton, N.J.), Oct. 6, 2013, at A11.