Ronald J. Rychlak

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name = Ronald J. Rychlak


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website = [http://www.law.olemiss.edu/faculty/rychlak_ronald.html University of Missippi Law School profile]
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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 University of Mississippi School of Law, and is known for his published works, career as an attorney, and commentary 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.Fact|date=June 2008

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

Rychlak is a Roman Catholic and belongs to the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. [ [http://www.law.olemiss.edu/faculty/rychlak_ronald.html University of Missippi Law School profile] ]

Career

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.

Rychlak is an academic fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. In 2004, the George W. Bush Administration sent him to advise the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the issue of free speech on the Internet. 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, and the International Masters of Gaming Law. He was appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court to be a member of the committee work on a revision of Mississippi's criminal code.

Rychlak has received three medals from the Vatican for his diplomatic service and he advises the Vatican's delegation to the United Nations. He is also a delegate at the U.N. on the creation of an International Criminal Court.

His most recent book is "Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII and the Catholic Church Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis", which Rychlak says puts to rest the black legend of the Roman Catholic Church during World War II. According to "The Weekly Standard", Rychlak's work, "Hitler, the War, and the Pope" (Genesis Press, 2000), is "the best and most careful of the recent works on the Church during World War II, an elegant tome of serious, critical scholarship." [http://www.law.olemiss.edu/faculty/rychlak_ronald.html]

References

External links

* [http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1998/9807fea3.asp Why I Don't Hold Hands at Mass] Catholic Answers
* [http://www.law.olemiss.edu/faculty/rychlak_ronald-publications.html List of publications by Rychlak]