Kellen Funk
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Kellen Funk, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He holds a PhD from Princeton University and a JD from Yale Law School. Funk is a historian of nineteenth-century Anglo-American legal practice. His scholarship examines broadly the American legal profession, including courts, litigation procedure, and the development of legal education. As a historian of legal culture, he is interested in the various ways in which law intersects with its political, economic, and social contexts. His work in the area of law and religion then similarly focuses on the manner in which American Christianity has interacted with, structured, and been influenced by American procedural law. His current research explores how Anglo-American norms of due process and proper trial procedure have influenced churches and religious bodies as they adjudicated disputes, maintained discipline, and investigated charges against their members, while also using and manipulating the private law of property, contract, and trust to make real their theological understandings of the world and its redemption.