Douglas Laycock Pens Piece for New York Daily News

About
The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.
Publications
Featured Publications
- Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Liability for Economic Harm
- Principles for a Data Economy
Projects
Featured Projects
Meetings
Upcoming Meetings
Members
Member News
Sign In
News
We regularly post information about the Institute, our members, and project participants on our News page. Our Annual Reports and quarterly newsletter, The ALI Reporter, can be found here as well.

Our project website, The ALI Adviser, features posts related to legal topics related to our projects. Speaker and conference presentations, as well as video interviews and features are hosted on our Vimeo page.

Reasonably Speaking, our podcast, features discussions with ALI members and project participants on current U.S. law topics of interest.
Giving
The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.
Learn more about ALI's history

News

Douglas Laycock Pens Piece for New York Daily News

December 12, 2017 | Member News

UVA School of Law professor Douglas Laycock and Thomas C. Berg of the University of St. Thomas have written an op-ed for the New York Daily News titled “How to slice the Masterpiece Cakeshop case: The narrow ruling that will preserve religious liberty without overreaching.”

The piece discusses Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the Supreme Court case addressing Masterpiece Cakeshop’s First Amendment right to refuse to design and create a cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding.

Read the full New York Daily News article.

Featured Members

Professor Douglas Laycock

Council Emeritus
Life Member

University of Virginia School of Law (Retired)

Return to All News