Richard B. Katskee

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Richard B. Katskee is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Appellate Litigation Clinic at the Duke University School of Law. Previously, Richard was Legal Director at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He represented the parent-plaintiffs in their successful challenge to the inclusion of intelligent design creationism in the public school biology curriculum in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District . And in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District , he represented in the U.S. Supreme Court the Washington school district that sought to protect the students against coercive coach-led prayers at high-school football games. Richard also served as Deputy Director of the Program Legal Group in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, where he led federal policymaking to enforce the laws barring race, sex, and disability discrimination in America’s schools, colleges, and universities, and he was a longtime member of the Supreme Court & Appellate practice at Mayer Brown LLP in Washington, D.C. He taught First Amendment law at the American University Washington College of Law and professional and political ethics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard College. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, his A.M. in political science from Harvard University, and his A.B. with highest distinction and high honors in political science from the University of Michigan.

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