Faculty Profile

Frederick Mark Gedicks held the Guy Anderson Chair (2005–2024) at BYU Law School where he taught from 1990 until his retirement in 2024. He taught constitutional law and legal theory and is widely published in the areas of law and religion and constitutional interpretation. Recent and forthcoming publications include “Custom, Preference, or Nature? Mormon Polygamy, Same-Sex Marriage, and Natural Law Theory,” “Coase and Accommodation: A Reply,” “Christian Dignity and the Overlapping Consensus,” and “The ‘Fixation Thesis’ and Other Falsehoods.”

Professor Gedicks was raised in New Jersey and southern California. He earned degrees in economics and philosophy from Brigham Young University and a law degree from the University of Southern California, where he also served as an editor of the law review. Following a Ninth Circuit clerkship, Professor Gedicks practiced corporation and securities law in Phoenix, Arizona, until he entered law teaching at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

Professor Gedicks has taught as a visiting professor at Bar-Ilan University (Israel), the University of Denver, the University of Milan (Italy), the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Utah. He is fluent in Italian and has taught and lectured at law schools throughout Italy. Professor Gedicks is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada.