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 American Religious Democracy: Coming to Terms with the End of Secular Politics (Praeger 2007).

Professor Ledewitz's Blog:
           http://www.hallowedsecularism.org/