Publications / Presentations: James Knicely

Over the years, attorneys affiliated with Bray| Knicely Law PLLC, and its predecessors have written extensively in scholarly journals about specific areas of the law, as well as made presentations at professional conferences and seminars.

Publications

Eminent Domain Reform: The “Virginia Way”, 45 Real Estate Law Journal 290 (2016)(with Francis A. Cherry, Jr.)

New Developments and Proposals for Change in Virginia Eminent Domain Law, XXXI The Fee Simple No. 2 (May 2011)

In God We Trust: The Judicial Establishment of American Civil Religion, 43 John Marshall L. Rev. 101 (2010) (with John W. Whitehead)

The Caging of Free Speech in America, 14 Temple Pol. & Civ. Rts, L. Rev. 455 (2005) (with John W. Whitehead)

“First Principles” and the Misplacement of the “Wall of Separation: Too Late in the Day for a Cure? 52 Drake L. Rev. 171 (2004)

High Wall or Lines of Separation, 6 W&M Bill of Rights J. (1997)

Free Speech and Nonestablishment in the Public Schools, 22 J. L. & Educ. 71 (1993)

The Thornburgh and Bowers Cases: Consequences for Roe v. Wade, 56 Miss. L. Rev. 267 (1986)

Presentations

Lecturer, Rare, Unique and Unusual Easements, May 5-6, 2016, 2016 CLE International Eminent Domain, Irvington, Virginia; Lecturer, Joint Use Utility Easements, May 7-8, 2015, 2015 CLE International Eminent Domain, Irvington, Virginia; Lecturer, The Unbuilt Road, May 1-2, 2014 CLE International Eminent Domain, Irvington, Virginia; Lecturer, Quick Take Primer, April 25, 2013 CLE International Eminent Domain, Irvington, Virginia; Lecturer, Ethics, April 19, 2012 CLE International Eminent Domain, Charlottesville, Virginia; Annual Lecturer on First Amendment issues (1990-2013), Rutherford Institute Interns, Charlottesville, Virginia; Lecturer, Education Seminar, Bridgewater College (November 2003); Lecturer, Religious Freedom in the 21st Century.- Legal and Public Policy Issues, Rutherford Institute CLE, Washington, D. C, 1996; Lecturer, The Growing Threat of Religious Discrimination, Trends and the Law, Rutherford Institute CLE, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1995; Lecturer, Parental Rights – At Home and in Education, Rutherford Institute CLE, Washington, D. C., 1994; Lecturer, Religious Freedom – The Courts and the Law, Rutherford Institute CLE, Richmond,Virginia, 1993; Lecturer, 28th Annual Washington Non-Profit Legal and Tax Conference, Washington, D. C., 1992; Lecturer, Spring Conference, Virginia Local Government Attorneys, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1992; Board of Advisors, Journal of Taxation of Exempt Organizations (Warren, Gorham & Lamont)