Emory University School of Law: Law and Religion Program

The Law and Religion Program pursues its efforts through the work of a director, two associate directors, an administrative assistant, and with the participation of 45 faculty members drawn from throughout Emory University. The Program receives secretarial, accounting, and technical support from Emory Law School and is further supported by the Emory University Offices of Grants and Contracts, News and Information, Publications, Information Technology, Career Services, and Institutional Advancement.

The Program's operating budget is furnished by the School of Law, the School of Theology, Emory College, and the Provost's Office. In addition to internal university funding, the Law and Religion Program has received substantial grants from The Pew Charitable Trusts, Inc., the Ford Foundation, the Lilly Endowment for the Humanities, the Steinhardt Foundation, the Overton and Lavona Currie Foundation, the Jay and Emily Lowe Foundation, the Georgia Bar Foundation, the Chicago law firm of Hoogendoorn, Talbot, Davids, Godfrey & Milligan, the Bell South Matching Gifts Program, the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, and several individual benefactors.

Frank S. Alexander, J.D. and M.T.S. (Harvard). Professor of Law, Founding Director and Co-Director, Law and Religion Program. Director, Project on Affordable Housing and Community Development. Specialties: Law and Theology, Real Property Law, Real Estate Finance, State and Local Government Law.
Robert B. Ahdieh, J.D. (Yale). Associate Professor of Law. Specialties: Public and Private Law in Transitional States, Russian Law, Comparative Law, International Trade Law, Contracts.
Patrick Allitt, Ph.D. (Berkeley). Associate Professor of History. Specialties: History of Religion, Catholic Intellectual History, American Religious History.
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, LL.B. (Khartoum), LL.M. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Edinburgh). Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Director, Religion and Human Rights Project. Specialties: Human Rights, Islamic Law and Theology, African Politics and Constitutionalism, Criminal Law and Criminology.
Thomas C. Arthur, J.D. (Yale). Dean, Emory Law School, Professor of Law, Interim Director, Halle Institute for Global Learning. Specialties: Antitrust, Civil Procedure, International Relations, American History.
David J. Bederman, J.D. (Virginia), Ph.D. (University of London), Dipl. (Hague Academy of International Law). Professor of Law. Specialties: Public International Law, Legal History, Ancient Law, Legal Hermeneutics.
Michael S. Berger, Ph.D. (Columbia). Associate Professor of Religious Authority and Ethics in Judaism. Specialties: Jewish Ethics, History of Jewish Law, Jewish Intellectual History.
Harold J. Berman, LL.B. (Yale), M.A. (Yale). Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Fellow of The Carter Center. Specialties: Western Law and Religion, Russian and Soviet Law, Legal History, Legal Philosophy.
Anita Bernstein, J.D. (Yale). Sam Nunn Professor of Law. Specialties: Torts, Professional Responsibility, Feminist Jurisprudence.
David R. Blumenthal, M.H.L. Ordination (Jewish Theological Seminary), Ph.D. (Columbia). Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies. Specialties: Constructive Jewish Theology, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Mysticism, Holocaust Studies.
Elizabeth M. Bounds, M.Div. and Ph.D. (Union Theological Seminary). Associate Professor of Christian Ethics. Specialties: Social Ethics, Feminist and Liberation Ethics, Poverty and Welfare, Reconciliation and Peacemaking.
Michael J. Broyde, J.D. (New York University), Ordination (Yeshiva University). Associate Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law; Academic Director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University; Senior Fellow, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion; Core Faculty, Institute for Jewish Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Specialties: Jewish law, Family Law, Legal Methods, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy.
Paul B. Courtright, M.Div. (Yale), Ph.D. (Princeton). Professor of History of Religion. Specialties: Religions of the South Asian Subcontinent, Popular Religion, Religious Change in Colonial India.
Nancy L. Eiesland, M.Div. and Ph.D. (Emory). Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion. Specialties: Gender and Religion, Globalization and Religion, Sociology and Theology of Illness and Disability.
Eliza Ellison, M.T.S. (Emory), Ph.D. Candidate (Wales). Director of Projects and Research, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion. Specialties: Peace Studies, Human Rights, Feminism and Literature, Anabaptism.
Noel Erskine, M.Th. (Duke), M.T.S. and Ph.D. (Union Theological Seminary). Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics. Specialties: Black Church History and Theological Method; Theologies of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, James Cone.
Martha A. Fineman, BA, Temple University, 1971; JD, University of Chicago, 1975. Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law.
Joyce Flueckiger, Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison). Associate Professor of Religion. Specialties: South Asian Religions, Hinduism in India, Women and Religion.
Thomas R. Flynn, Ph.D. (Columbia). Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy. Specialties: Religious Philosophy, Christian Ethics, Comparative Ethics.
James W. Fowler, Ph.D. (Harvard). Charles Howard Candler Professor of Theology and Human Development, Director, Center for Ethics and Public Policy in the Professions. Specialties: Faith and Moral Development, Professional Ethics, Christian Theology, Religious Education
Thomas E. Frank, M.Div. and Ph.D. (Emory). Professor of Church Administration and Congregational Life, Director of Methodist Studies. Specialties: Church Administration, Congregational Studies, and United Methodist History and Polity.
Jon P. Gunnemann, A.B. (Harvard), B.D. (United), Ph.D. (Yale). Professor of Social Ethics. Special Interests: Christian Social Ethics; Social Justice and Social Theory; Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics and Economics.
W. Stephen Gunter, Ph.D. (Leiden). Arthur J. Moore Associate Professor of Theology. Specialties: History and Theology of Methodism, Theology and History of Evangelism, Christian Identity and Post-Modern Culture.
Susan Henry-Crowe, M.Div. (Emory). Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life. Specialties: Interreligious Dialogue, United Methodist History and Polity, Applied Practices in Ministry.
Brooks Holifield, Ph.D. (Yale). Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Church History. Specialties: American Religion, History of Theology in America, Colonial American, American and European Religious Thought.
Howard O. Hunter, J.D. (Yale). Professor of Law. Specialties: Contracts, First Amendment Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Education.
Timothy P. Jackson, Ph.D. (Yale). Associate Professor of Christian Ethics. Specialties: Christian Moral Theology, Professional (including Medical) Ethics, Philosophy of Religion.
Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D. (Yale). Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins. Specialties: New Testament, Christian Ethics, Church History.
Mark D. Jordan, Ph.D. (Texas). Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion. Specialties: Catholic Moral Theology, Medieval Latin Theology and Philosophy, Christianity and Sexuality.
Richard A. Joseph, D.Phil. (Oxford). Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science. Specialties: African and Caribbean Politics, Comparative Constitutionalism, Democratization.
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D. (Brandeis). Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies. Specialties: Modern Jewish History, History of the Holocaust, Holocaust Denial.
Richard C. Martin, Ph.D. (New York University). Professor of Religion. Specialties: Islamic Studies; Comparative Studies in Religion; Religion and Conflict.
Gordon Newby, Ph.D. (Brandeis). Executive Director of the Institute for Comparative International Studis, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Chair, Graduate Program in West and South Asian Religions. Specialties: Islamic Society, Culture and Language, Jewish-Muslim Relations, History of Religion.
J. J. Owen, Ph.D. (Toronto). Assistant Professor of Political Science. Specialities: History of political philosophy, theories of religious freedom, liberalism and its critics, the intersection of political philosophy and political theology.
Laurie Patton, M.A. and Ph.D. (Chicago). Chair, Department of Religion, Associate Professor of Religion. Specialties: History of Indian Religions, Vedic Interpretation, Comparative Mythology, Poetics, and Literature, Theory in the Study of Religion.
Robert A. Paul, B.A. (Harvard), Ph.D. (University of Chicago). Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Dean of Emory College Faculty of Arts & Sciences. Specialties: Cultural Theory, Psychological Anthropology, Comparative Myth, Ritual and Religion, Psychoanalysis
Michael J. Perry, J.D. (Columbia), LL.D. (St. John's University, Minnesota). Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law. Specialities: Constitutional Law, Law and Religion, Law and Morality, Human Rights.
Janette B. Pratt, LL.B (London School of Economics), LL.M. (New York University). Administrative Professor for Field Placement. Specialties: Lawyering Skills, Child Advocacy, Mediation.
Polly Price, M.A. (Emory), J.D. (Harvard). Professor of Law. Specialties: Legal History, Torts, Legal Methods.
Phillip L. Reynolds, Ph.D. (Harvard). Aquinas Associate Professor of Historical Theology. Specialties: Catholic Theology, Catholic History, Family Law and Ethics.
Robert A. Schapiro, J.D. (Yale), M.A. (Stanford). Professor of Law. Specialties: Federal and State Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Civil Procedure.
M. Thomas Thangaraj, Th. D. (Harvard). Brooks Professor of World Christianity. Specialties: Modern Christianity, Christian-Hindu Dialogue, Religions of India.
Steven M. Tipton, Ph.D. (Harvard). Professor of Sociology of Religion. Specialties: Sociology of Morality, Culture, and Religion, American Institutions and Religious Organizations.
Johan D. van der Vyver, LL.D. (Pretoria). I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights. Specialities: International Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Human Rights in South Africa.
John Witte, Jr., J.D. (Harvard). Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law and Religion. Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Ethics, Director of Law and Religion Program. Specialties: Legal History, American and Comparative Religious Liberty, Western Marriage Law, American Constitutional Law.