Prof. Douglas Laycock

Douglas Laycock is the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor at Law and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, and Alice McKean Young Regents Chair in Law Emeritus at the University of Texas. He has long advocated protecting religious liberty for all faiths and for nonbelievers, and for serious enforcement of both the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses.

He served as lead counsel in six cases in the Supreme Court of the United States: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah, City of Boerne v. Flores, Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, Town of Greece v. Galloway, and Holt v. Hobbs, and filed amicus briefs in many other cases.