Ronald J. Rychlak
The University of Mississippi
Law Center
University, Mississippi 38677
1987-Present
(Hired as Assistant Professor)
Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs: Consultant to the Vatican’s Delegation to the United Nations; Delegate to the General Assembly; Member of Governor’s task force for recovery from hurricane Katrina; Editorial Board, The Gaming Law Review; Academic Fellow in Terrorism Studies (Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, 2005); Consultant, Central and East European Law Initiative (1997-2003); Salvatori Fellow (Heritage Foundation); Directorships: Judicare of Mississippi (1989-96), Red Cross of North Central Mississippi (1992-98, Chair, 1995-97), Mississippi Small Business Assistance Center (1989-93); Executive Director, William C. Keady American Inn of Court III (1991-98); Advisory Board, Federalist Society of Mississippi (1995-) and member of National Subcommittees (2000-); Columnist for the Mississippi Conservative (1995-97); National Association of Scholars; Intercollegiate Scholastics Institute (campus representative); Society of Catholic Social Scientists; Fellowship of Catholic Scholars; International Masters of Gaming Law; Member Executive Committee, AALS Section on Law and Sports (1988-1989 and 1995-96) and Section on Criminal Justice (1995-96); Listed in Who's Who in the World and Who’s Who in American Law; Member or chair of several University and Law School committees; Faculty Senate Executive Committee (1993-95); Past Coach of National Moot Court, ABA, & Frederick Douglas Moot Court Teams (twice advanced to national finals); Faculty advisor to several student organizations; Member Illinois State Bar Association; Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Awarded three papal medals for diplomatic service to the Holy See.
Admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court, the Northern District of Illinois, the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Member International Criminal Bar Association; Prepared and served as second chair for United States v. Abel Martinez-Salazar, argued to the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 29, 1999. Member of US delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Meeting on the Relationship Between Racist, Xenophobic and Anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes, Paris France, June 16-18, 2004. Attended two week counter-terrorism program in Israel ( Tel Aviv University) May-June 2005. Testified before the National Gambling Impact Study Commission regarding gaming’s economic impact (1998); Member, Supreme Court Task Force on Revising Mississippi Criminal Code (1997-); Directed and taught in summer legal program at Downing College, Cambridge University, Summer, 1991.
Courses taught: Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Gaming Law, Contracts, Environmental Law, Trial Practice, Evidence, and University Studies (undergraduate). Adjunct Professor in Graduate Engineering Program. Instructor certificate from National Judicial College.
Previous Experience
Jenner & Block 1984-1987
Chicago, Illinois
Associate: General Litigation Department.
United States Court of Appeals 1983-1984
for the Sixth Circuit
Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Harry W. Wellford, chambers in Memphis, Tennessee.
Legal Education
Vanderbilt University School of Law ,
Nashville, Tennessee
J.D. Degree, 1983
Patrick Wilson Scholarship Finalist
Order of the Coif
American Education Services Scholarship
Academic Standing Top 10%
Legal Aid Society-Prison Program
American Jurisprudence Award for Contracts I and II, and Criminal Law
Ewing Scholar
Research Assistant to Professor Michael Goldsmith
Re: Younger & Goldsmith, Principles of Evidence
Undergraduate Education
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
B.A. in Economics, cum laude, 1980
Feature Editor of Newspaper
President of Student Body
Color Commentator for Radio Football Broadcasts
Debate Team
Judge David W. Peck Award for Promise in Law
Varsity Baseball
Lilly Scholar
Publications
Books, Chapters, etc.
Righteous Gentiles: How Pope Pius XII Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis, Spence Publishing, 2005.
Trial by Fury: Restoring the Common Good in Tort Litigation, monograph 8 in the Christian Social Thought Series, The Acton Institute (2005).
Mississippi Criminal Trial Practice (with Marc Harrold) Thompson/West (2004).
Real and Demonstrative Evidence: Applications and Theory, Lexis Publishing Company, 1995 and Supp. 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, & 2001. Second Edition (2003).
Gaming Law: Cases and Materials (with Robert Jarvis et al.) Matthew Bender & Co. (2003). Separate teacher’s manual with same publication information.
Hitler, the War, and the Pope, Genesis Press (2000); soft cover: Our Sunday Visitor Press (2000).
The Pius War, Chapter 3: A Dangerous Thing to Do ( Lexington Books, 2004).
Courting the Yankees: Legal Essays on the Bronx Bombers, Chapter 12: Unlucky Numbers: Betting on, Against, and With the Yankee$ ( Carolina Academic Press, 2003).
Television series: Pope Pius XII, special guest on all 14 episodes (EWTN Television, 2004).
Audio CD: Hitler, the War, and the Pope ( St. Joseph Radio, 2003).
Audiotape: The Papacy: Forever a Sign of Contradiction ( St. Joseph Communication, 2002).
Teacher Manual for Archibald Cox, Derek Curtis Box, Robert A. Gorman, and Matthew W. Finkin, Labor Law: Cases and Materials (14th ed. 2006) (Foundation Press) (forthcoming 2008)
Criminal/Constitutional/Gaming Issues
Abortion, Thinking Americans, and Judicial Politics, 14 Life and Learning (Proceedings of the 14 th University Faculty for Life Conference, U. of St. Thomas Law School) 77 (2005).
From the Classroom to the Courtroom: Therapeutic Justice and the Gaming Industry’s Impact on Law, 74 Miss. L.J. 827 (2005) (with C. Hinshaw).
Legal Problems with Online Gambling, 6:1 Engage 36 (May 2005).
Baseball’s Integrity Still on Line, The Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 17, 2004.
An Empire of Law?: Legalism and the International Criminal Court, (with J. Czarnetzky) 79 Notre Dame Law Review 55 (2003).
Just-War Theory, International Law, and the War in Iraq, 2 Ave Maria L. Rev. 1 (2004).
A Bad Bet: Criminalizing Nevada’s College Sports Books, 4 Nev. L. Rev. 320 (2003-04).
Defense Counsel and the Death Penalty: An Obligation to Oppose the Theory Behind the Punishment?, 42 Brandeis Law Journal 372 (2003-04),
The International Criminal Court and the Question of Subsidiarity, Third World Legal Studies 2000-2003 115 (with J. Czarnetzky).
A Court Out of Order, First Things, April 2003 (with J. Czarnetzky).
The 1933 Concordat Between Germany and the Holy See: A Reflection of Tense Relations, 2001 The Digest 23 ( Syracuse University).
Compulsive Gambling as a Criminal Defense, 4 Gaming Law Rev. 333 (2000) (with J. Jarrell).
Federalist Society White Paper: Humberto Alvarez-Machain v. United States, posted on the Federalist Society Web page <<http://www.fed-soc.org/Publications/Terrorism/ninth.htm>>
(War Powers and Homeland Defense) January 2002.
Society's Moral Right to Punish: A Further Exploration of the Denunciation Theory of Punishment, 65 Tulane L. Rev. 299 (1990).
Pete Rose, Bart Giamatti, and the Dowd Report, 68 Miss. L.J. 889 (1999).
Mental Health Experts on Trial: Free Will and Determinism in the Courtroom, 100 W. Va. L. Rev. 193 (1997) (with J.F. Rychlak).
Lotteries, Revenue, and Social Cost: A Historical Perspective on State Sponsored Gambling, 34 Boston College L. Rev. 11 (1992).
The Introduction of Casino Gambling: Public Policy and the Law, 64 Miss. L.J. 291 (1995).
Direct Criminal Contempt and the Trial Attorney: Constitutional Limitations on the Contempt Power, 14 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 243 (1990).
The Insanity Defense and the Question of Human Agency, 8 New Ideas in Psychology 3 (1990) (with J.F. Rychlak).
Free Will is a Viable, Verifiable Assumption: A Reply to Garret & Viney, 8 New Ideas in Psychology 43 (1990) (with J.F. Rychlak).
Civil Rights, Confederate Flags, and Political Correctness: Free Speech and Race Relations on Campus, 66 Tulane L. Rev. 1411 (1992).
Videotape and Casino Lawsuits, 4 Gaming Law Rev. 241 (1999).
Video Gambling Devices, 37 UCLA L. Rev. 555 (1990).
Litigation Oriented Articles
Tort Reform as a Moral Issue, Acton Commentary, April 6, 2005.
Disciples on the Docket: A Christian Response to Tort Reform, Policy Reform (Acton Institute), February 2005.
Navigating the Murky Waters of Legal Ethics (reviewing Ronald D. Rotunda, Legal Ethics: The Lawyer’s Deskbook on Professional Responsibility), Federalist Society, Professional Responsibility Newsletter, Fall 2000.
Real and Demonstrative Evidence in Commercial Litigation, 17 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 509 (1997) (with J. Czarnetzky), reprinted in 46 Defense Law Journal 611 (1997).
Effective Appellate Advocacy: Tips From the Teams, 66 Mississippi Law Journal 527 (1997).
John Wade: Teacher, Lawyer, Scholar, 65 Miss. L.J. 1 (1996).
Problems of Burdens and Bias: A Response To Bornstein, 12 J. of Mind and Behavior 469 (1991) (with J.F. Rychlak).
Real and Demonstrative Evidence Away from Trial, 17 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 509 (1993) (with C. Rychlak).
Use of Real and Demonstrative Evidence at Trial, 33 Trial Law. Guide 550 (1990) (with T. Mulroy), reprinted in ABA, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, Demonstrative Evidence: Its Effective and Practical Use in Litigation (1992); and in Thomas R. Mulroy, Winning Your Case Before Trial (Paul M. Lisnek & Associates, 1995).
To Tell the Truth: Accuracy in Demonstrative Evidence, The Practical Litigator, March 1994, at 47 (with S. Dulaney); part 2 in the May 1994 issue.
Environmental Law
Ocean Aquaculture, 8 Fordham Env. L.J. 497 (1997).
Changing the Face of Environmentalism, 8 Fordham Env. L.J. 915 (1996).
People as Part of Nature: The Law of the Mother, 13 Stanford Env. L.J. 451 (1994)(book review).
Swimming Past the Hook: Navigating Legal Obstacles in the Aquaculture Industry, 23 Environmental Law 837 (1993) (Lewis & Clark) (with E.M. Peel).
Coastal Zone Management and the Search for Integration, 40 DePaul U.L. Rev. 981 (1991).
The Humorous Origins of the Green Movement: The Three Stooges as Early Environmentalists, 48 Okla. L. Rev. 35 (1995).
Common Law Remedies for Environmental Wrongs: The Role of Private Nuisance, 59 Miss. L. J. 657 (1989).
Thermal Expansion, Melting Glaciers, and Rising Tides: The Public Trust in Mississippi, 11 Miss. Col. L. Rev. 95 (1990).
Environmental Regulation of the Aquaculture Industry, 11 WaterLog 10 (1991) (with E.M. Peel).
Trace Gases, Equal Footing, and the Public Trust: Ownership of Coastal Properties after the Greenhouse Effect, in Long Term Implications of Sea Level Change for the Mississippi and Alabama Coastlines (Conference Proceedings) (1990).
History, Biography, and Religion
Wrong Turn: The Purpose-Driven Life Gives Bad Directions, This Rock, December 2005 (with Kyle Duncan).
A Righteous Gentile (reviewing David Dalin’s The Myth of Hitler’s Pope), Crisis, October 2005.
Dealing with Dissent: Fr. Richard McBrien, This Rock, July/August 2005.
Vatican insiders talk of likely front-runners, The Commercial Appeal, April 6, 2005.
Cornwell's Latest Folly: Trying to Smear Pope John Paul II (reviewing John Cornwell’s The Pontiff in Winter: Triumph and Conflict in the Reign of John Paul II), Catalyst, March 2005.
Postwar Catholics, Jewish Children, and a Rush to Judgment, Beliefnet.com, posted Jan. 18, 2005 (including sidebar: Jewish Children After World War II: A Case Study), also reprinted in Inside the Vatican, January-February 2005.
The Catholic Church in France During World War II, The Catholic Response, Jan./Feb. 2005.
It Really Happened, 84 The Linking Ring 55 (Nov. 2004).
Book Review: Hitler and the Vatican: Inside the Secret Archives That Reveal the Complete Stories of the Nazis and the Church (by Peter Godman), First Things, May 2004.
New Anti-Pius XII Book by an Old Critic (reviewing Robert Katz’s The Battle for Rome), Catalyst, May 2004.
Hitler and the Vatican – Reopening the Case, Crisis, April 2004 (reviewing Peter Godman, Hitler and the Vatican); reprinted in Newsmax magazine, May 2004.
In Defense of Cardinal Stepinac, The Catholic Answer, March/April 2004.
It’s Campus Ministry Done Right, Our Sunday Visitor, November 16, 2003.
Book Review: The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945, by Richard Steigmann-Gall, First Things, October 2003.
Daniel Goldhagen’s Assault on Christianity, 4 Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions 184 (2003).
The Social Justice Network, Forum Focus, Summer 2003.
Book Review: Pius XII und Deutschland, by Michael F. Feldkamp, The English Historical Review, June 2003, at 840.
A Moral Force on the International Scene, Forum Focus, Spring 2003.
Book Review: A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, by Daniel Goldhagen, The Catholic Historical Review, April 2003.
Opening the Archives, Not Ending the Debate, The Wanderer, March 13, 2003.
Book Review: The Defamation of Pius XII, by Ralph McInerny, The Catholic Historical Review, January 2003.
Dean of Catholic-Bashers, The American Conservative, Feb. 10, 2003.
Another Reckoning: A Response to Daniel Goldhagen’s A Moral Reckoning, Crisis, Jan. 2003.
A “Righteous Gentile” Defends Pius XII, National Catholic Register, Oct. 28, 2002and in 32:11 Briefing 8 (November 2002) (Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of England & Wales and Scotland).
Comments on Zuccotti’s Under His Very Windows, 7 J. Modern Italian Studies 218 (2002).
A Broken Faith: John Cornwell’s New Book, St. Austin Review, July/August 2002.
Goldhagen v. Pius XII, First Things, June/July 2002, at 37-54.
Misusing History to Influence the Future, Forum Focus, Summer 2002.
Path of Popular Culture Led Catholic Church Astray, Commercial Appeal, May 9, 2002.
The Church and the Holocaust, The Wall Street Journal ( Europe), March 28, 2002.
Pius XII and the Holocaust, The Times Literary Supplement, March 15, 2002 (solicited letter).
With This Sister, It’s No Act, (reviewing The Fighting Nun: My Story and Pope Pius XII: Consensus and Controversy both by Margherita Marchione) Catholic Dossier, March/April 2002. Longer version: VII Catholic Social Science Review 242 (2002).
Book Review: Hitler and the Holocaust, by Robert Wistrich, First Things, March 2002.
Spins of Deceit, (reviewing David Kertzer, The Popes Against the Jews and Jose Sanchez, Pius XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy), Crisis, March/April 2002.
Joseph Timothy O’Callahan: The Navy Priest, The Catholic Answer, March/April 2002 at 55.
In Praise of World War II Veterans, Wabash Magazine, Winter/Spring 2002.
Guess Who’s Back? (Reviewing John Cornwell, Breaking Faith), Catalyst, Jan-Feb. 2002.
The Popes and the Jews (reviewing Kertzer, The Popes Against the Jews) Catalyst, Dec. 2001.
The Pope Pius XII Study Group: A Wasted Opportunity, Catalyst, September 2001.
At Cross Purposes (reviewing James Carroll, Constantines’s Sword: The Church and the Jews) The Washington Post, February 12, 2001 at C3.
Catholic Answers About Pope Pius XII, The Catholic Answer, March/April 2001.
Historical Dishonesty: The Big Lie of “Hitler’s Pope”, This Rock, January 2001.
The Pope Pius XII Study Group: Read the Documents!, Catalyst, December 2000.
A Response to: The Vatican and the Holocaust: A Preliminary Report By the International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission, The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights web page, posted Nov. 2000 <<http://www.catholicleague.org/research/rychlakcomm.htm>>
Guilty Collaborators, or Charitable Victims: The German Church and Forced Labor, Our Sunday Visitor, October 15, 2000.
Newly Beatified Popes Passed Intense Scrutiny, Our Sunday Visitor, October 8, 2000.
60 Minutes on Hitler’s Pope, Catalyst, May 2000.
Vatican Chronicles: A Different Read (An Exchange with John Cornwell), Brill’s Content, April 2000.
This New Commission is a Redundant Exercise, Inside the Vatican, January 2000.
Cornwell’s Errors: Reviewing Hitler’s Pope, Catalyst, December 1999.
Nothing is Ever Anybody's Fault: Do We Choose to Act or are We Merely Conditioned? This Rock, October 1999.
The Selling of a Myth, Inside the Vatican, Oct. 1999.
Theology According to Richard McBrien, The Wanderer, March 25, 1999.
Why I Don’t Hold Hands at Mass, This Rock, July/August 1998.
Why Pope Pius XII Was Right: The Holy See v. The Third Reich, New Oxford Rev., Oct. 1998.
A Clear-Cut Case For Excommunication, New Oxford Review, April 1997 (with Fr. K. Slattery).
History Kidnaped? (reviewing David Kertzer, The Kidnaping of Edgardo Mortara) Crisis, May 1997.
Church’s Role in World War II Examined, Mississippi Today, March 25, 1994.
Selected Presentations
Debate: The United States, Europe, and the War in Iraq (debating Former First Minister of Scotland Henry McLeish) University of Arkansas ( Fayetteville), October 19, 2005.
The International Criminal Court: An Obstacle to Peace?, Syracuse University, School of Law, September 20, 2005; repeated at the University of Arkansas ( Fayetteville), October 19, 2005.
Gambling in Texas: The Benefit and Cost of Casinos and Lotteries, Texas Tech University, School of Law, September 13, 2005.
MSNBC: The Abrams Report: Reports on looting, price-gouging, and forced evacuation laws following Hurricane Katrina, August 31 and September 6, 2005.
Participant: Concepts of Peace and War in the Abrahamic Religions, August 9-11, 2005, Oslo, Norway.
Terrorism, Free Speech, and Hate on the Internet, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference, July 25, 2005, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Liberty Fund event: Liberty and Judicial Activism Worldwide, Philadelphia, PA, June 16-18, 2005.
Scientific Evidence in the Courtroom, Mississippi Law Update, Natchez, MS, May 2005.
The 10 Commandment Cases: A Debate, University of South Dakota School of Law, March 31, 2005.
Therapeutic Justice and Gaming Law, International Masters of Gaming Law conference, October 2004, The University of Mississippi.
From the Classroom to the Courtroom, How Legalized Gambling is Affecting the Practice of Law, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference, Kiawah Island, South Carolina, July 31, 2004.
Free Speech and the Internet, Presentation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Meeting on the Relationship Between Racist, Xenophobic and Anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes, Paris France, June 16, 2004.
Abortion, ‘Thinking Americans,’ and Law, St. Thomas University, School of Law, University Faculty for Life Conference, St. Thomas University, School of Law, June 5, 2004.
Problems with the International Criminal Court, Ave Maria School of Law, Feb. 25, 2004.
Lectures on the Fourth Amendment, National Judicial Training, National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law, Oxford, Mississippi, February 2-5, 2004.
Just War Theory and the War in Iraq, Thomas More Society, Memphis, Tennessee, November 7, 2003.
A Bad Bet: Criminalizing Nevada’s College Sports Books, International Masters of Gaming Law Conference, Sept. 19, 2003, UNLV School of Law. Repeated at The University of Mississippi School of Law, October 14, 2003 and at the University of Nebraska, School of Law, Nov. 12, 2003.
Defense Counsel and the Death Penalty: An Obligation to Oppose the Theory Behind the Punishment?, Washington and Lee University, School of Law, on May 17, 2003.
Comments on the International Criminal Court, Princeton University (the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions), April 11-12, 2003.
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