Frederick M. Gedicks is Guy Anderson Chair and Professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where he has taught a wide range of courses in constitutional law and theory, as well as courses on telecommunications law and corporate and securities law. He is the author of many articles on issues of church and state, as well as two books on that topic: The Rhetoric of Church and State: A Critical Analysis of Religion Clause Jurisprudence (Duke University Press 1995) and Choosing the Dream: The Future of Religion in American Public Life (with Roger Hendrix, Greenwood Press 1991). Professor Gedicks serves as faculty advisor to the BYU chapter of the American Constitution Society, and was honored with that chapter?s ?Spirit of Brennan? Award in 2003. In 1996, he was awarded the John Stuart Mill Award for Excellence in Constitutional Studies by the BYU chapter of the Federalist Society. In addition to his work in the legal academy, Professor Gedicks is Of Counsel to the firm of Snow, Christensen & Martineau in Salt Lake City.
Steven G. Gey, the David and Deborah Fonvielle and Donald and Janet Hinkle Professor of Law at Florida State University, will deliver the Symposium?s featured address on April 13. The author of over thirty scholarly articles on religious liberties, free speech, and constitutional theory, Professor Gey is sole author of Cases and Materials on Religion and the State (LexisNexis, 2d ed. 2006) and a co-author of the forthcoming casebook, First Amendment: Cases And Theory (Aspen 2007). Professor Gey has received Florida State?s University Teaching Award and has been honored several times as its College of Law Professor of the Year. He also has been recognized with the Association of the Bar of the City of New York?s Thurgood Marshall Award for his pro bono representation of death row inmates. Before joining the Florida State faculty in 1985, Professor Gey practiced with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. He received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Steven K. Green is Professor of Law and Director of the new Center for Religion, Law, and Public Affairs at the Willamette University School of Law. He has written many articles on the doctrine, history, and theory of the Establishment Clause, and was awarded Willamette?s Robert L. Misner Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2006. Before joining the Willamette faculty in 2001, Professor Green served for nine years as General Counsel and Director of Policy for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. In that role, he litigated many significant church-state cases (including several in the U.S. Supreme Court) and participated in the drafting of both federal and state religious liberty legislation. He currently serves on the Religious Liberty Committee of the National Council of Churches and served as Recorder for the Oregon Law Commission?s study of the Faith-Based Initiative in Oregon. In addition to a J.D. from the University of Texas, Professor Green holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in American Constitutional and Religious History from the University of North Carolina.
Kent Greenawalt is University Professor at Columbia Law School. His principal scholarly interests are constitutional law and jurisprudence, with special emphasis on church and state, freedom of speech, civil disobedience, and criminal responsibility. Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1965, he was law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, and he subsequently spent part of a summer as an attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in Jackson, Mississippi. He served as Deputy Solicitor General of the United States in 1971-72. Professor Greenawalt?s many books include Conflicts of Law and Morality (Oxford University Press 1987), Religious Convictions and Political Choice (Oxford 1988), Law and Objectivity (Oxford 1992); Private Consciences and Public Reasons (Oxford 1995), and Does God Belong in Public Schools? (Princeton University Press 2005). His most recent book is Religion and the Constitution, Volume I: Free Exercise and Fairness (Princeton University Press 2006), and he is currently working on a second volume examining the Establishment Clause.
Douglas Laycock, the Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, will deliver the Symposium?s keynote address on April 12. He has published many articles on religious liberty and other issues of constitutional law, as well as articles and two books on the law of remedies. Professor Laycock is an experienced appellate litigator on religious liberty issues, and has argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. He has also played a key role in developing state and federal religious liberty legislation. He has represented clients across the religious and political spectrum: the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Antonio and the National Association of Evangelicals, Hindus and Santerians, and the American Civil Liberties Union and parents objecting to school-sponsored prayers. Professor Laycock is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, and a graduate of Michigan State University and of The University of Chicago Law School. Before coming to Michigan, he taught at The University of Chicago and The University of Texas at Austin.
Ira ?Chip? Lupu is the F. Elwood and Eleanor Davis Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is a nationally recognized scholar in the constitutional law of church and state. Along with his colleague Robert Tuttle, Professor Lupu is the Co-Director of the Legal Tracking Project of the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government (State University of New York), which studies government partnerships with faith-based organizations in the delivery of social services. The Roundtable?s work is funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Before joining the George Washington faculty in 1990, Professor Lupu taught at Boston University and was a visiting professor at Northeastern University and at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1989-90, he was the professor-in-residence on the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Lupu received his A.B. from Cornell University and his J.D. from Harvard University, where he was a Case Editor on the Harvard Law Review.
Steven D. Smith is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He has published widely in leading law reviews on law and religion, jurisprudence, and constitutional theory, including the Michigan Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Texas Law Review. He has also written several books, including Law?s Quandary (Harvard University Press 2004), Getting Over Equality: A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America (NYU Press 2001), The Constitution and the Pride of Reason (Oxford University Press 1998), and Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom (Oxford University Press 1995). Prior to joining the San Diego faculty, Professor Smith held chaired professorships at the University of Notre Dame Law School and the University of Colorado School of Law. He holds a J.D. from Yale University and a B.A. from Brigham Young University.
John E. Taylor is an Associate Professor at the West Virginia University College of Law, where he teaches Religion and the Constitution, Torts, Education Law, Jurisprudence, and Professional Responsibility. His principal areas of research are law and religion and criminal procedure. Professor Taylor received the College of Law?s Significant Faculty Scholarship Award in 2006 for his article entitled Using Suppression Hearing Testimony to Prove Good Faith Under United States v. Leon. Before coming to the College of Law, Professor Taylor clerked for the Honorable M. Blane Michael on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He holds J.D. and A.B. degrees from the University of North Carolina and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Religious Studies from Stanford University. His doctoral dissertation was a comparative study of Kant?s and Aquinas?s accounts of emotion and virtuous action.