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Abdullahi An-Na'im and Talal Asad talk about human rights
Monday, November 09, 2009
CSLR Senior Fellow Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, traded comments and questions on the concept of human rights at an event organized by Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs on September 29, 2009. An-Na`im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory. Read the full transcript from the Social Science Research Council's blog, The... Read More
Bernice King named new president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Monday, November 09, 2009
Rev. Bernice King, CSLR Joint-Degree Recipient (J.D./M.Div '90), was elected the seventh president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) on October 30, 2009. The first female SCLC president, King is the youngest daughter of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. and Corretta Scott... Read More
Blumenthal's 'Banality of Good and Evil' translated into French
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Global understanding of good and evil gets a little clearer this year with the translation of CSLR Senior Fellow David R. Blumenthal's The Banality of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition (Georgetown, 1999) into French. La Banalite du Bien et du Mal (Les... 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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Christianity and Law Book is Best Seller
The Christian Century's 2009 fall books catalog lists Law and Christianity: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2008) as a top five... Read More
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Pope Names Hittinger to Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
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