Ronald J. Rychlak

Ronald J. Rychlak is an American lawyer, jurist, author and political commentator. He is the Associate Dean For Academic Affairs and the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, and is known for his published works, career as an attorney, and writings on the role of Pope Pius XII in World War II.

Ronald J. Rychlak
Born (1957-09-23) September 23, 1957
OccupationLawyer, law professor, author
Children6
WebsiteUniversity of Mississippi Law School profile

Personal life

Rychlak attended Wabash College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in economics in 1980. He then attended Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he was honored with the Order of the Coif and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 1983.[1] Rychlak is married, has six children and resides in Oxford, Mississippi.

Career

Rychlak has been a professor at the University of Mississippi since 1987, where he serves as the Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government and is the former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.[1] Before becoming a professor, he was an attorney with Jenner & Block in Chicago. Rychlak also clerked for Judge Harry W. Wellford of the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

In 2003, Rychlak served as an academic fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and he studied counter-terrorism in a program in Israel. In 2004, the State Department sent him to Paris in order to address a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the issue of free speech on the Internet. In 2008, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb presented him with a Blessed Cardinal Stepinac medal for his historical work.

His memberships include the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the National Association of Scholars, the editorial board of The Gaming Law Review, the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, the International Masters of Gaming Law, and the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He was appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court to be a member of the committee working on a revision of Mississippi's criminal code.

Rychlak serves as an advisor the Holy See's Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations on various issues of international law, and he is a member of the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.[2] He also serves as a delegate at the meetings of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court. He is the author or co-author of seven books and numerous articles. He has been published in the Notre Dame Law Review.

He is also a panelist for The Washington Post's "On Faith" blog and a columnist for Crisis magazine online. His most recent book, co-authored with his colleague David Case, is Environmental Law, part of the Oceana Law for the Layperson series put out by Oxford University Press. His book Hitler, the War, and the Pope addresses the claim that Pope Pius XII failed to stand up for the victims of Nazi aggression in World War II.

Works

  • Trial by Fury: Restoring the Common Good in Tort Litigation, vol. 8 in the Christian Social Thought Series (Grand Rapids: Acton Institute, 2005).
  • Hitler, the War, and the Pope, Our Sunday Visitor; Rev Exp edition (May 28, 2010).
  • Ion Mihai Pacepa and Ronald J. Rychlak (2013), Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism, WND Books, ISBN 978-1-936488-60-5.

Awards and Honors

  • 2006: Blessed Frederic Ozanam Award for Social Action, the Society of Catholic Social Scientists.
  • 2007: Honoree, U.S. Holocaust Museum for his work with on inter-faith dialogue.[1]

References

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