Steven D. Smith is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, where he also codirects the Institute for Law and Philosophy and the Institute for Law and Religion. He won the 2022 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Initiative Scholarship Award for his accomplishments in the field of law and religion. His publications include The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic, Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, and The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom.