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Luke Timothy Johnson Wins Emory Williams Teaching Award
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Dr. Luke Timothy Johnson, CSLR Senior Fellow and Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, was awarded the Emory Williams Teaching Award. One of highest honors given to faculty, the award recognizes professors for their exemplary teaching as well as remarkable service to their respective field. A prolific writer, Johnson is the author of numerous articles and more than 25 books. In 2011 he was the recipient of the prestigious Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion... Read More
Welker Lecture Unleashes the Power of Mercy in Biblical Law
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
World renowned theologian Michael Welker deciphered the meaning of the “mercy code” in the Hebrew Bible and outlined how human beings, regardless of culture or religion, can appreciate its “enormous normative shaping power” in the quest for justice and human rights. Welker, chair for Systematic... Read More
Law and Religion Student News
Friday, March 29, 2013
Law and Religion students report a number of major accomplishments and impressive plans for the upcoming summer. Matt Cavedon (JD/MTS Candidate 2015) has been elected the 2013-2014 Executive Articles Editor for the Emory International Law Review (EILR) and will continue to serve on Emory Law’s... Read More
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Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
His specialties are international human rights, comparative constitutional law, and Islamic law. An-Na'im has written and edited numerous books and articles, and lectured widely throughout the world on law and human rights, Islamic law and politics, and cross-cultural comparative law. He has won numerous grants from the Ford Foundation and was named a 2009 Carnegie Scholar for his “compelling ideas and commitment to enriching the quality of the public dialogue on Islam.”
Michael J. Broyde
Michael J. Broyde is a professor of law and a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. His primary areas of interest are law and religion, Jewish law and ethics, and comparative religious law. He is ordained (yoreh yoreh ve-yadin yadin) as a rabbi by Yeshiva University and is a member (dayan) of the Beth Din of America, the largest Jewish law court in America. Broyde has published more than 70 articles on various aspects of law and religion and Jewish law, and a number of articles in the area of federal courts.
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"Human rights are, in no small part, the modern political fruits of ancient religious beliefs and practices – ancient Jewish constructions of covenant and mitzvot, classic Christian concepts if ius and libertas, freedom and convent, and more."
–John Witte, Jr. Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction