Douglas Laycock

Douglas Laycock is the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia and the Alice McKean Young Regents Chair in Law Emeritus at the University of Texas. He is generally recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on both the law of remedies and the law of religious liberty. His monograph on the choice of remedies in Anglo-American law, The Death of the Irreparable Injury Rule, won the Scribes Book Award. His many writings on religious liberty have been republished in a five-volume collection.    He is an experienced appellate litigator, including in the Supreme Court of the United States, and he played a key role in developing state and federal religious liberty legislation.  His work is distinctive for its effort to protect the rights of both sides in America’s culture wars. His work on religious liberty has been honored by groups ranging from the ACLU to associations of Mormon and evangelical Christian lawyers.