Frank S. Ravitch is a Professor of Law at the Michigan State University College of Law. He is the author of the books, Marketing Creation: The Law and Intelligent Design (Cambridge Univ. Press, expected 2010); Masters of Illusion: The Supreme Court and the Religion Clauses (NYU Press 2007); Law and Religion, A Reader: Cases, Concepts, and Theory, 2nd Ed. (West 2008) (First Ed. 2004); Employment Discrimination Law (Prentice Hall 2005) (with Pamela Sumners and Janis McDonald); and School Prayer and Discrimination: The Civil Rights of Religious Minorities and Dissenters (Northeastern University Press, 1999 & paperback edition 2001). Professor Ravitch is currently working on a treatise with the late Boris Bittker and Scott Idelman called Religion and the State in American Law, which is supported by a grant from the Lilly Endowment. He has also published a number of law review articles dealing with law & religion, civil rights law, and disability discrimination in journals such as the Georgia Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, BYU Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and Cardozo Law Review. In 2001, Professor Ravitch was named a Fulbright Scholar and served on the Faculty of Law at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, where he taught U.S. Constitutional Law and Law & Religion and engaged in research.
Professor Ravitch recently wrote an amicus brief addressing constitutional issues to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of twenty railroad unions in Norfolk Southern Railroad, Inc. v. Sowell. He also wrote an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the Interfaith Alliance and the Horace Mann League in support of the petition for writ of certiorari in Chandler v. Siegelman, a school prayer case from Alabama. He regularly serves as an expert for print and broadcast media and speaks on topics related to church/state and civil rights law to a wide range of national and local organizations.
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Playing the Proof Game: Intelligent Design and the Law.1 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 801.
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1 The author thanks Step Feldman, Chip Lupu, Ken Marcus, Bill Marshall, Bob Tuttle, and William Van Alstyne for comments received during a symposium held at The William & Mary Law School in November, 2007, which have proven quite relevant to this article. Thanks also to Kristi Bowman and Mark Modak-Truran, with whom I participated on a panel at the Law & Society Association Annual Meeting in May, 2008 in Montreal and to participants at my presentation on “ID and the Law” at the Education Law Conference in Portland, ME in July, 2008. I am also grateful to Brian Leiter for calling my attention to the excellent work Larry Laudan has done on the demarcation issue discussed herein. Moreover, I thank Glen Staszweski, Cynthia Lee Starnes, Nick Mercuro, Mae Kuykendall and Kevin Saunders for their insights. Finally, many thanks to Colin Boes, Amanda Gardiner, Holly Shannon and Adrienne Whitehead for excellent research assistance. Of course, any errors are mine alone.