Education
B.A. (Economics), Brigham Young University
J.D., University of Southern California
Curriculum Vitae
SSRN Author Page
Background and Experience
Professor Gedicks grew up in New Jersey and southern California. Following graduation from law school and a clerkship on the Ninth Circuit, he practiced corporation and securities law in Phoenix, Arizona, until he entered law teaching. Professor Gedicks joined the BYU law faculty in 1990 after four years at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and a year at the University of Denver.
Professor Gedicks holds the Guy Anderson Chair, one of three endowed chairs at BYU Law School.
Scholarship
Professor Gedicks has published more than 50 articles on law and religion, constitutional law, and constitutional interpretation in leading law journals, including the Boston College Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Emory Law Journal, George Washington Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Virginia Law Review. He has also published two books, Choosing the Dream: The Future of Religion in American Public Life (Greenwood Press, 1991) (with Roger Hendrix), and The Rhetoric of Church and State: A Critical Analysis of Religion Clause Jurisprudence (Duke University Press, 1995).
Professor Gedicks's most recent publications include "Truth and Conseqences: Mitt Romney, Proposition 8, and Public Reason," 61 Alabama Law Review (forthcoming Fall 2009); "An Originalist Defense of Substantive Due Process: Magna Carta, Higher-Law Constitutionalism, and the Fifth Amendment," 58 Emory Law Journal 585-673 (2009); "Three Questions about Hybrid Rights and Religious Groups," 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 192 (2008); and "Uncivil Religion: Judeo-Christianity and the Ten Commandments," 110 West Virginia Law Review 274 (2007) (with Roger Hendrix).
Professor Gedicks has lectured widely in the United States and Europe on religion and its place in the American legal and social order, including "Spirituality, Fundamentalism, Liberty: Religion at the End of Modernity," the 2004 Annual Lecture of the Center for Church/State Studies at DePaul University; "Religious Experience in the Age of Digital Reproduction," part of the St. John’s Law Review Distinguished Lecture Series at St. John’s Law School; and "'No Man’s Land': The Place of Latter-day Saints in the Culture War," sponsored by The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University–Bloomington.
Professor Gedicks has lectured in Italian on the Religion Clauses and American constitutional law generally at universities throughout northern Italy, including the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (at both its Milan and Piacenza campuses) and the State Universities of Como, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Siena, and Turin.
Professor Gedicks's working papers and major publications and lectures can be downloaded from his author page at the Social Science Research Network.
Teaching
Professor Gedicks teaches constitutional law, constitutional history, federal courts, law and religion, securities regulation, and telecommunications. He was recognized as the BYU Law School Second/Third Year Professor of the Year for 2006-07, and has received teaching awards from the BYU chapters of both the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society.
Professor Gedicks has held visiting appointments in the law schools at the University of Denver, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Siena, Italy, and the University of Utah. He has visiting appointments for 2009 at Notre Dame Law School, the University of Milan, Italy, and the University of Utah.
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