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BIOGRAPHY
Douglas Laycock studies religious liberty, including such issues as conflicts between government regulation and religious practice, religious freedom restoration acts, religious speech by citizens and by government (school prayer, Christmas displays, etc.), and government funding of educational and social services delivered by religious organizations. He also studies the law of remedies, or what a court can do for a litigant who has been wronged. Remedies include judgments for money, from one dollar to billions of dollars; court orders directing defendants to stop illegal conduct or correct its effects; and the means of enforcing these judgments. He has also worked on a broad range of other issues in constitutional law, including federalism and Congressional powers, procedural due process, and methods of constitutional interpretation. He has practical as well as scholarly expertise. He is the author of many articles and two books, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a frequent expert witness before legislative committees and an experienced appellate litigator who has been involved in most of the Supreme Court's religious liberty cases over the past decade.
