Scholarship

State RFRAs and Land Use Regulation

Douglas Laycock

Date

1999

Citation

Douglas Laycock, State RFRAs and Land Use Regulation, 32 UC Davis Law Review, 755–784 (1999).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Douglas Laycock

Constitutional Law and Legal History

Center for the First Amendment

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