Frank S. Ravitch

Frank S. Ravitch is a law professor, the Walter H. Stowers Chair of Law and Religion and the director of the Kyoto, Japan, program at Michigan State University. He has published 12 books, written dozens of articles, essays and book chapters including “Freedom’s Edge: Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and the Future of America” (2016), “Masters of Illusion: The Supreme Court and the Religion Clauses” (NYU Press 2007), and “School Prayer and Discrimination: The Civil Rights of Religious Minorities and Dissenters” (Northeastern University Press, 1999). He is co-author of the first comprehensive treatise on law and religion in more than 100 years, “Religion and the State in American Law” (Cambridge University Press 2015). Ravitch has also provided briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court: brief amicus curiae in support of Pet. for Writ of Cert. in Hecker v. Deere (2009) and brief amicus curiae of (20 railway unions) in Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Sorrell (2006). Ravitch was named a Fulbright Scholar in 2001 and served on the law faculty at Doshisha University in Japan, where he taught courses relating to U.S. constitutional law and law and religion. His current research is focused on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on the religion clauses of the First Amendmentand and how they harm religious minorities and non-believers.