Managing Editor, Canopy Forum; Director of Undergraduate Outreach and Engagement; Paul and Marion Kuntz Scholar in Law and Religion

Dr. Ariel Liberman is Paul and Marion Kuntz Scholar in Law and Religion at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He also serves as the Managing Editor of Canopy Forum and CSLR’s inaugural Director of Undergraduate Outreach and Engagement.  A passionate, interdisciplinary-minded scholar of law, religion, and education, Dr. Liberman has explored subjects of schooling and learning (religious and secular) in a myriad of ways, including through legal, political, historical, philosophical, comparative, and ethical perspectives.  He has also written on interreligious engagement, theory of law, and comparative religion topics. His published works have appeared, among other places, in the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Journal of Law and Education, and the American Indian Law Journal, and forthcoming pieces will be available in the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, as well as in Oxford Bibliographies.

Dr. Liberman joins CSLR after serving as a Lecturer at Oglethorpe University, where he taught courses in philosophy, history, and politics for its Core Program, and served in a variety of department and university leadership roles. He gained his doctorate in 2023 from Emory Law School, where he was named Randolph W. Thrower Scholar in Law and Religion. He holds an LLM (2022) from Emory Law School, a JD (2018) from Boston University School of Law, and a BA (2015) in English from New York University.