Douglas Laycock

professor, University of Virginia School of Law

Douglas Laycock is one of the nation's leading authorities on the law of remedies and also on the law of religious liberty. Before joining Virginia's faculty in 2010, Laycock served as the Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to that he taught for 25 years at the University of Texas and for five years at the University of Chicago. Laycock has testified frequently before Congress and has argued many cases in the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of the leading casebook *Modern American Remedies*; the award-winning monograph *The Death of the Irreparable Injury Rule*; and many articles in the leading law reviews. He has co-edited a collection of essays, *Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty*, and he recently published *Religious Liberty, Volume I: Overviews and History*, the first of a four-volume collection of his many writings on religious liberty. He is vice president of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2009 winner of the National First Freedom Award from the Council on America's First Freedom. Laycock earned his B.A. from Michigan State University and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.