Steve Collis is a law professor at the University of Texas School of Law, and is one of the leading academics in the nation on religion and law, First Amendment freedoms, and productive discourse. His scholarship has been cited by numerous state and federal appellate courts and the United States Supreme Court. He is also the faculty director of Texas's Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and its Law and Religion Clinic. 

Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas, he was a research fellow at Stanford Law School and an equity partner at Holland & Hart LLP, where he chaired the firm’s religious institutions and First Amendment practice group. The author of four critically acclaimed books related to thriving in a pluralistic society, he has been interviewed by and quoted in various news and media outlets, including The New York Times, Bloomberg, NBC, CBN News, NPR, The Washington Post, PBS, and numerous podcasts and television shows. The American Library Association has praised him as "a much needed voice of reason and compromise."