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Professor Laycock to Discuss Recent Supreme Court Decisions at Texas Union This Friday
Time and Place: Friday, Nov. 15 at 2:00 p.m. in Suite 3.502 (the Santa Rita suite) of the Texas Union
AUSTIN, Texas – This Friday the University of Texas at Austin's DeTocqueville Society will present UT Law's Professor Doug Laycock speaking on Religion and the American Supreme Court. Professor Laycock will offer a long term overview that ties changes in the law of religious liberty to changes in religious belief and lines of religious conflict. The program will begin at 2:00 p.m. in the Santa Rita suite of the Texas Union. Walter Dean Burnham, one of UT-Austin's distinguished political scientists, will introduce Laycock.
Professor Laycock is considered one of the U.S.'s top two experts in the U.S. on matters of religious freedom as well as the nation's leading authority on the law of remedies. He testifies frequently before Congress about issues of religious liberty, including most recently on school vouchers this past September 17. He has also argued many cases in the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
Laycock is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.