Professor Gedicks holds the Guy Anderson Chair, one of three endowed chairs at the Law School. He is widely published on law and religion, constitutional law, and constitutional interpretation, including articles or essays in the Boston College Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Emory Law Journal, George Washington Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Southern California Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Virginia Law Review. He has also published two books, Choosing the Dream: The Future of Religion in American Public Life (Greenwood Press, 1991) (with Roger Hendrix), and The Rhetoric of Church and State: A Critical Analysis of Religion Clause Jurisprudence (Duke University Press, 1995).

Professor Gedicks's current research focuses on the effects of belief on American law and society, the Religion Clauses of the 1st Amendment, and the original meaning of the Due Process Clauses of the 5th and 14th Amendments.  Among his recent publications are "Incorporation of the Establishment Clause Against the States: A Logical, Textual, and HIstorical Account," Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming Winter 2013); "God of Our Fathers, Gods for Ourselves:  Fundamentalism and Postmodern Belief," 18 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 901-14 (2010); "Truth and Conseqences: Mitt Romney, Proposition 8, and Public Reason," 61 Alabama Law Review 337-71(2009); and "An Originalist Defense of Substantive Due Process: Magna Carta, Higher-Law Constitutionalism, and the Fifth Amendment," 58 Emory Law Journal 585-673 (2009).  He is currently at work on an article justifying application of the Establishment Clause to the states, entitled "Establishment Clause Incorporation:  A Logical, Textual, and Historical Defense."

Professor Gedicks has lectured in Italian at universities throughout northern Italy, including the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (at both its Milan and Piacenza campuses) and the Universities of Como, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Siena, and Turin. He will spend a month as Visiting Research Fellow on the ReligioWest project at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy during November 2012.

Professor Gedicks grew up in New Jersey and southern California. Following graduation from law school and a clerkship on the Ninth Circuit, he practiced corporation and securities law in Phoenix, Arizona, until he entered law teaching. Professor Gedicks joined the BYU law faculty in 1990 after four years at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and a year at the University of Denver.