Douglas Laycock has served as lead counsel in six religious liberty cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia School of Law, one of the nation’s leading experts on religious liberty, has completed a comprehensive series of books about the often legally and socially contentious topic of religion and the law. The final three volumes of “Religious Liberty” will be published in November, drawing to a close the five-volume series, which Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. first began to release in 2010. The books span Laycock’s four decades of scholarship and work in the field, including his influence on questions before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has served as lead counsel in six cases before the court. Whereas the first two books laid the groundwork with “Overviews and History” and “The Free Exercise Clause,” the new editions delve more deeply into recent controversies, such as whether a religiously observant baker can decline to bake a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding ceremony in Masterpiece Cakeshop. “I think there is a solution to the conflict between religious liberty and anti-discrimination laws, and Volume Three lays it out,” Laycock said of the third book in […]
