Joel A. Nichols

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Joel A. Nichols

• Role: Senior Fellow
• Education: J.D., Emory Law School M.Div., Candler School of Theology, Emory University

Professor of Law, University of St Thomas

Joel A. Nichols is Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas. (Minnesota). His scholarship explores the relationship of theology and religion to law – especially family law, constitutional law, and international human rights. He is the editor of Marriage and Divorce in a Multicultural Context: Reconsidering the Boundaries of Civil Law and Religion (Cambridge Univ. Press 2012) and co-author of Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 3d ed. (with John Witte, Jr.) (Westview Press 2011). He has also published more than two dozen book chapters and articles, including in NYU Law Review, Family Court Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Journal of Law and Religion, Emory Law Journal, and others. Professor Nichols’s current research includes marriage, religion, and legal pluralism; evangelical Christians and human rights; and religion and the Constitution. He is a graduate of Emory’s Law and Religion Program, holding degrees in both law (J.D.) and theology (M.Div.). Prof. Nichols also works closely with Viva, a Christian international human rights organization that assists children at risk; he has worked extensively in the US and UK, and has also provided human rights and leadership training in Kenya and the Dominican Republic.