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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Sarah Gerwig-Moore (JD/MTS ‘02), associate professor of law at Mercer Law, has been awarded tenure. Her teaching and scholarship interests center around constitutional criminal law, appellate and post-conviction practice and procedure, prisoners’ rights, and other practical matters relating to serving the public interest. Gerwig-Moore created and now teaches The Habeas Project, the only pro bono effort in Georgia to focus solely on non-capital post-conviction cases. Charles Hooker (JD ’06) is... Read More
Witte Honored by Library of Congress, Emory Law Students
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
CSLR Director John Witte, Jr. has won two prestigious honors this spring: he’s been appointed to the Scholars Council of the Library of Congress’ Kluge Center, and Emory Law’s Class of 2012 Student Bar Association has named him Most Outstanding Professor of the Year, the 11th time he will receive... Read More
New Book Enlightens about ‘No’ Establishment Clause
Monday, April 23, 2012
A forthcoming book edited by CSLR Director John Witte, Jr. and CSLR Senior Fellow T. Jeremy Gunn examines the rich, complex history of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, which forbids the creation of a state-sanctioned religion. No Establishment of Religion: America’s Original... 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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