Ronald J. Rychlak

Ronald J. Rychlak
Born	United States
Occupation	lawyer, law professor, author
Children	six
Website	University of Mississippi Law School profile

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.

Rychlak attended Wabash College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in economics in 1980. Next he 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.

Rychlak is married, has six children and resides in Oxford, Mississippi.

Rychlak is a Roman Catholic and belongs to the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.

Before becoming a professor at the University of Mississippi, Rychlak was an attorney with Jenner & Block in Chicago. He 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. He is a signatory to the Nashville Declaration on the Church and the Holocaust and as such was honored by the U.S. Holocaust Museum in 2007. In 2008, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb presented him with a Blessed Cardinal Stepinac medal for his historical work.