Mormonism in Western Society: Three Futures
Frederick Gedicks
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April 08, 2011
Frederick Gedicks is Guy Anderson Chair and Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University, where he has taught courses in constitutional law and freedom of religion since 1990. He publishes and lectures in the United States and Europe on religion, natural law, and postmodernism in the American legal and social order.
Professor Gedicks has received multiple teaching awards and has held visiting appointments in the law schools at the University of Denver, the University of Milan, Italy, the University of Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Siena, Italy, and the University of Utah.
Professor Gedicks was raised in New Jersey and southern California. He earned a B.A. in economics from BYU, and a J.D. from the University of Southern California, where he was also an editor on the law review. Following a clerkship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Professor Gedicks practiced corporation and securities law in Phoenix, Arizona until he entered law teaching. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada and speaks fluent Italian.