Areas of Expertise
Law and Religion, Immigration Law, Migration Studies, Critical Theory, Political Theology, Nationalism
Biography
Silas W. Allard is an associate teaching professor at Emory School of Law and senior fellow at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion, where he also serves as executive editor of the Journal of Law and Religion. Allard’s scholarship focuses on the legal and religious construction of political community through practices of exclusion with special attention to the role of migration. He is a co-editor, with Kristin Heyer and Raj Nadella, of Christianity and the Law of Migration (Routledge, 2022). His writing has appeared in journals such as the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Refuge, and Political Theology, and in edited collections on vulnerability, global law, international law, and migration. Allard received his doctor of philosophy in religion, juris doctor, and master of theological studies from Emory University, and a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from the University of Missouri. Following his juris doctor, Allard clerked for Chief Judge Donald C. Pogue at the United States Court of International Trade.