Director, J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies
Baylor University
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In addition to serving as editor of the award-winning Journal of Church and State, Dr. Davis is a fellow and director of the International Academy for Freedom of Religion and Belief, serves on the advisory council of the Interfaith Religious Liberty Foundation, is on the advisory board of The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, is a member of the Religious Liberty Council of the National Council of Churches U.S.A., is listed in Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in the World, and presently serves as Special Counsel to the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs. In 2000, he was awarded the Human Rights Achievement Award by Freedom magazine. He is also a former Baylor football captain and all-conference receiver. He is the author of Original Intent: Chief Justice Rehnquist & the Course of American Church-State Relations (1991 by Prometheus Books), and Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original Intent (2000 by Oxford University Press). He is the editor, coeditor, or coauthor of twelve additional books, including The Role of Religion in the Making of Public Policy (1991), Legal Deskbook for Administrators of Independent Colleges and Universities (1993), Problems and Conflicts Between Law and Morality in a Free Society (1993), Genesis and the Millennium: An Essay on Religious Pluralism in the Twenty-first Century by Bill Moyers (2000), Welfare Reform and Faith-Based Organizations (1999), and Religious Liberty in Northern Europe in the Twenty-first Century (2000). He has also published more than eighty articles in various law reviews, academic journals, magazines, and other periodicals. His frequent magazine, radio, and television interviews have included those for Time Magazine, First Things, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, the Fox News Network, CBS News, and ABC News. In recent years he has been called upon by the U.S. Congress, the Texas legislature, and United Nations emissaries for testimony relating to legal measures needed to protect religious liberty in national and international settings. He has lectured extensively before academic, public, and religious audiences on a wide range of topics including religious liberty (national and international), church-state relations (ancient, medieval, and modern), human rights, ethnic cleansing, the political role of Christianity and other religions, civil religion, nontraditional religions, religious dimensions of the American founding, law and morality, law and religion, and religion and education. |
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Derek
H. Davis, B.A., M.A., J.D., Ph.D., is a graduate of Baylor University
and Baylor Law School and holds a Master of Arts in Church-State
Studies from Baylor University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Humanities
from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is Professor of Political
Science and the Director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State
Studies, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, which offers M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees in Church-State Studies, conducts research and publishes books
on church-state relations and religious liberty in national and
international contexts, maintains the largest research library in the
world pertaining to religious liberty and church-state relations, and
sponsors conferences and lectureships on various church-state themes.