Faculty Profile

Prof LedewitzBruce Ledewitz

Professor of Law
412.396.5011
412.396.5035 (fax)
ledewitz@duq.edu

Areas of Concentration: Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction, State Constitutional Law, Law and Science Fiction, Church and State and Presidential Power.

Professor Ledewitz earned his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Yale University. A former public defender, he has served as Secretary to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and is also an advocate for environmental concerns. He has written extensively for both legal journals and the mainstream press. Professor Ledewitz is co-director of the Law School's Pennsylvania Constitution Web page, www.paconstitution.duq.edu. In 2007, the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters sponsored a speaking tour across Pennsylvania by Professor Ledewitz to stimulate debate of his "Platform for Reform of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court".  Professor Ledewitz is the author of:

  • Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism (Indiana University Press 2011)
  • Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan 2009)
  • American Religious Democracy: Coming to Terms with the End of Secular Politics (Praeger 2007)

Professor Ledewitz's Blog:

http://www.hallowedsecularism.org/

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Scholarship

Speaking Engagements

  • 10/22/2012 -- Panel presentation at Loyola Law School Second Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium
  • 2/25/2012 -- Presentation on panel at Annual Religious Legal Theory Conference, at Pepperdine Law School
  • 2/11/2012 -- CLE, "Secularism, Religion and Morality," at Duquesne Law School
  • 1/12/2012 -- "Is There a Crisis in American Secularism?," delivered to the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Center for Inquiry
  • 11/3/2011 -- Presentation at Duquesne Law School Symposium on the Future of the Establishment Clause in Context
  • 6/19/2011 -- "What Kind of Establishment Clause is Appropriate for Religion in an Age of Science?," workshop, presented at the annual convention of The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science
  • 4/9/2011 -- "Higher Law in the Public Square: A New Interpretation of Church and State," presented at the Delaware Valley Regional Convention of Americans United for Separation of Church and State