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Karen Worthington
KAREN L. WORTHINGTON is a nationally recognized children’s law expert working on behalf of court-involved children and children at risk of committing crimes or being victimized. She was the founding director of the Barton Child Law & Policy Center at Emory Law, a multi-disciplinary...
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Director
John Witte, Jr.
John Witte, Jr. is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Foundation Distinguished Professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.
"We set a common table for people to share their expertise and to be edified by the expertise of others, we get everyone to be bold enough to try out their raw ideas and to refine those ideas through deep conversation, and we engage in earnest and daring conversation that cuts across different schools, different disciplines, different ideologies."
Founding Director
Frank S. Alexander
Frank S. Alexander is professor of law at Emory University School of Law and founding director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Alexander founded Emory's Law and Religion Program in 1982.
"The work of law and religion allows me to understand my ministry and to interpret it; but my work as a practicing attorney — which I view as a ministry — also informs my understanding of law and faith. I can’t do one without the other."
Faculty Experts
Paul B. Courtright
History of the Study of Religion, Religion and Media, Hindu/South Asian Religions
Faculty in the News
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Garnett Argues Against Contraception Mandate in USA Today Op Ed
November 28 2011 -
New Book Says Being Loved is the First Human Right
November 17 2011 -
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Inducts E. Brooks Holifield
October 14 2011 -
CSLR Visiting Professor Andrea Pin Interviews CSLR Senior Fellow Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na‘im
October 07 2011 -
Broyde Outlines Jewish Law Support of Controversial Reproductive Technology
September 20 2011
In Their Own Words
"In the nineteenth century ... scholars developed categories for organizing the vast amount of new information about the practices and beliefs of the societies over which (Europeans) were exercising increasing dominance. One of the key categories that emerged during this time was religion. The notion emerged that all human beings conducted their lives in relation to higher ... beings or powers."
–Paul B. Courtright