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Abdullahi An-Na'im and Talal Asad talk about human rights
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,... Read More
Bernice King named new president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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
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
Visiting Professor Compares Italian and American Church-State Issues
Editor's note: CSLR Visiting Fellow Andrea Pin, appointed professor of public comparative law at the University of Padua (Italy), presented a colloquium at Emory Law this week on church and state issues confronting modern Italy. Below is his summary of the presentation. Italian society is... Read More
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 Cambridge University Press best seller. The book, edited by CSLR Director John Witte, Jr. and Founding Director Frank S. Alexander, explores the... Read More
Pope Names Hittinger to Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
CSLR Senior Fellow Russell Hittinger, University of Tulsa, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The appointment is not the first for the professor of Catholic Studies, who also serves on the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Read about the... Read More
Richard Garnett Speaks about Supreme Court, Constitutional Law on YouTube
CSLR Senior Fellow Richard Garnett spoke about the current U.S. Supreme Court makeup and upcoming First Amendment cases in a YouTube video as part of the University of Notre Dame's NDdotEdu page. "We are at a strange point in our history where we have six Catholic justices," Garnett... Read More
Children get Spotlight in New Book about World Religions
Overlooked by scholars of religion throughout history, children and religion get center stage in a new volume edited by CSLR Senior Fellow Don S. Browning and Marcia J. Bunge, professor of humanities and theology at Christ College. “Although religious traditions have addressed children and... Read More
Impact of Latino Immigrants Analyzed in New Book
A new book edited by CSLR Senior Fellow Mary E. Odem explores the impact of the population shift taking place as more and more Latino immigrants find their work and homes in the U.S. South instead of the traditional immigration sites of the Southwest. In Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of... Read More
New CSLR Publication Catalog Available Online, by Mail
A new publications catalog announcing the latest and forthcoming volumes of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) is now available online and by mail. The guide is a must-have bibliography and provides an at-hand reference tool for scholars of law and religion. It spans... Read More
New Book Seeks to Explain Methodist's Doctrine in Experience
In his new book Doctrine in Experience: a Methodist Theology of Church and Ministry (Kingswood Books, 2009), CSLR Senior Fellow Russell E. Richey seeks to examine the ways in which American Methodism practices its theology. A product of the CSLR’s Christian Jurisprudence II project, the book... Read More
New Book Explores Competing Paradigms in Children's Rights
A new book edited by CSLR Senior Fellow Karen L. Worthington and Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law Martha Albertson Fineman questions whether the United States is treating children properly by refusing to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The United States is the... Read More
Broyde Receives Grant for Study on Husbands Missing Since 9/11
CSLR Senior Fellow Michael J. Broyde has received a $30,000 grant to study the legal issues surrounding Jewish husbands who are missing as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, and whose apparent widows now wish to remarry. The Emory University Research... Read More
Recent CSLR Graduates Comment on Value of Joint Degree Program
Three recent CSLR joint degree program graduates comment on their experience at Emory and their aspirations for the future. Danielle Goldstone, JD-MTS, 2009 After working in Washington, D.C. with international non-profit agencies, Danielle Goldstone came to the CSLR interested in the nexus of law... Read More
New Website Makes Research More Accessible to Public
The Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) at Emory University has launched a new website that provides unprecedented access to its most important work of the past 25 years. It is available at http://cslr.law.emory.edu/. Full bibliographic information on more than 1,000 books, journals,... Read More
Emory Magazine Explores Back Story of Witte's 'Sins' Book
Emory Magazine's summer 2009 issue explores the back story of John Witte, Jr.'s new book, The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Writer Mary J. Loftus relates experiences from Witte's childhood, including the... Read More
An-Na'im Combats Misconceptions of Islam on Big Think
Abdullahi An-Na'im, CSLR Senior Fellow and Candler Professor of Law at Emory University, discusses the West's biggest misconceptions of Islam in an online streaming video on Big Think, a global forum connecting people and ideas. He talks about the changes necessary to modernize Shari'a, the core... Read More
Broyde Comments on Ordaining Orthodox Women
Michael Broyde, CSLR senior fellow and a dayan in the Beth Din of America, commented on the question of orthodox women clergy in an opinion piece for The Jewish Press. Part of his argument for ordaining orthodox women reflects the growing number of women already serving in... Read More
Worthington Wins National Advocacy Award
CSLR Senior Fellow Karen L. Worthington will receive the 2009 Outstanding Legal Advocacy Award in August from the National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) for her efforts to fight for children’s rights in Georgia. Georgia Representative Mary Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur) nominated... Read More
Witte at Calvin's Pulpit in Geneva
CSLR Director John Witte, Jr. spoke in Geneva on July 6 during a conference in honor of John Calvin’s 500th birthday. The Calvin Quincentenary was an international, interdenominational, and interdisciplinary commemoration of the life and work of Calvin, who was born July 10, 1509 in Geneva. Witte,... Read More
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Perry to Speak at Chile Student Congress
CSLR Senior Fellow Michael J. Perry, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University, will speak at the 4th Student Congress of... Read More
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Witte Shares Expertise with Big Think
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An-Na'im Responds to Obama's Cairo Speech
June 08, 2009
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Wheelers Win Second Volunteerism Award
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"The notion that Muslims would wish Senator Obama harm because he left Islam (though he never embraced Islam and was raised Christian) is purely speculative and based on a misread of Shari`a and the history of Islam. These conclusions do nothing but further stereotype a religion that is poorly understood in the West—particularly in the United States."
–Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im "Misrepresenting Islam" Religion Dispatches