The Pursuit of Happiness (Senior Advisor)

Christian Legal Studies (Director)

• The Integrative Jurisprudence of Harold J. Berman (Participant)
• Christian Jurisprudence I (Director)
• Christian Jurisprudence II (Director)
• Christianity and Democracy in Global Context (Director)
• Law, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition (Director)
• Christian Foundations of Religious Liberty and Rule of Law (Director)

Sex, Marriage, and Family & the Religions of the Book (Director)

The Child in Law, Religion, and Society (Director)

• The Best Love of the Child (Participant)

Law, Religion, and Human Rights (Director)

• Roundtable on New Books in Morality, Religion, and Law (Participant)
• Toleration and Truth: The Impact of Liberal Society on Religion (Participant)
• Religious Liberty in Russia (Participant)
• Shari'a, Family, and Democracy (Director)
• Religious Dimensions of American Constitutionalism (Director)
• Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective (Director)
• The Problem and Promise of Proselytism in the New Democratic World Order (Director)
• Foundations of Law (Director)

Books

• Christian Marriage and Modern Marriage Law, Cambridge University Press 
• Law and Protestantism II: The Legal Teachings of the Calvinist Tradition, Cambridge University Press 
• Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva II: The Christian Household, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 
• From Sacrament to Contract, Second Edition, Westminster John Knox Press, 2012 
• No Establishment of Religion: America's Original Contribution to Religious Liberty, Oxford University Press, 2012 
• Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2011
• Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2011 
• Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 3rd Ed., Westview Press, 2010 
• The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered, Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Christianity and Law: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• The Vocation of the Child, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008
• The Equal-Regard Family and its Friendly Critics: Don Browning and the Practical Theological Ethics of the Family, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007
• The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• The Teachings of Modern Orthodox Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Columbia University Press, 2007
• The Teachings of Modern Protestantism on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Columbia University Press, 2007
• The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Columbia University Press, 2007
• To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006
• Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005
• Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Society in American Life, Georgetown University Press, 2005
• Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 2nd Ed., Westview Press, 2005
• Sex, Marriage, & Family in World Religions, Columbia University Press, 2005
• Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva I: Courtship, Engagement, Marriage, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005
• The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume II, Columbia University Press, 2005
• The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume I, Columbia University Press, 2005
• Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties, Westview Press, 2000
• Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia: The New War for Souls, Orbis Books, 1999
• From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion and Law in the Western Tradition, Westminster John Knox Press, 1997
• Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996
• Christianity and Democracy in Global Context, Westview Press, 1993
• The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion, Scholars Press, 1988
• A Christian Theory of Social Institutions, Paideia Press, 1986

Journals

• "Emory International Law Review," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2011)
• "Fides et Libertas," (2010): 13-173
• "Religious Freedom, Democracy, and International Human Rights," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2009)
• "The Future of Law, Religion, and the Family," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2008): 1-102
• "Symposium, 'The Foundations and Frontiers of Religious Liberty'," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2007): 1-276
• "A Primer on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism," Cumberland Law Review, Vol. 31 (2001): 619-630
• "Symposium, 'Pluralism, Proselytism and Nationalism in Eastern Europe'," Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 36, No. 1 (1999): 1-286
• "Symposium, 'Soul Wars: The Problem and Promise of Proselytism in Russia'," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1998): 1-738

Articles

• "More than a Mere Contract: Marriage as Contract and Covenant in Law and Theology," University of St. Thomas Law Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2008): 595-615
• "Prophets, Priests, and Kings: John Milton and the Reformation of Rights and Liberties in England," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 57 (2008): 1527-1604
• "Rights, Resistance, and Revolution in the Western Tradition: Early Protestant Foundations," Law and History Review, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2008): 545-570
• "Human Rights in a Secular Age," The Immanent Frame (2007)
• "Introduction: The Foundations and Frontiers of Religious Liberty," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 21 (2007): 1-11
• "Facts and Fictions about the History of Separation of Church and State," Journal of Church and State, Vol. 48 (2006): 15-46
• "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother? Child Marriage and Parental Consent in Calvin's Geneva," Journal of Religion, Vol. 86 (2006): 580-605
• "Law and Religion: The Challenges of Christian Jurisprudence," University of St. Thomas Law Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2005): 439-452
• "Between Sanctity and Depravity: Law and Human Nature in Martin Luther's Two Kingdoms," Villanova Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 3 (2003): 727-762
• "From Establishment to Freedom of Public Religion," Capital University Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2003): 499-518
• "A Dickensian Era of Religious Rights: An Update on Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective," William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 (2001): 707-770
• "The Goods and Goals of Marriage," Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 3 (2001): 1019-1071
• "A Most Mild and Equitable Establishment of Religion: John Adams and the Massachusetts Experiment," Journal of Church and State, Vol. 41 (1999): 213-252
• "Introduction -- Soul Wars: The Problem and Promise of Proselytism in Russia," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 12 (1998): 1-42
• "The Civic Seminary: Sources of Modern Public Education in the Lutheran Reformation of Germany," Hamline Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1995-96): 173-223
• "The Future of Religious Liberty in Russia: Report of the De Burght Conference on Pending Russian Legislation Restricting Religious Liberty," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 8 (1994): 1-66
• "The Development of Herman Dooyeweerd's Concept of Rights," South African Law Journal, Vol. 110, No. 3 (1993): 543-562
• "A New Concordance of Discordant Canons: Harold J. Berman on Law and Religion," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 42 (1993): 523-560
• "The Three Uses of the Law: A Protestant Source of the Purposes of Criminal Punishment?," Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1993-94): 433-465
• "Christianity and Democracy: Past Contributions and Future Challenges," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1992): 55-69
• "How to Govern a City on the Hill: The Early Puritan Contribution to American Constitutionalism," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 39 (1990): 41-64
• "The Transformation of Western Legal Philosophy in the Lutheran Reformation," Southern California Law Review, Vol. 62 (1989): 1573-1660
• "The Study of Law and Religion: An Apologia and Agenda," Ministry & Mission, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1988): 4-15
• "Blest Be The Ties That Bind: Covenant and Community in Puritan Thought," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 36 (1987): 579-601

Chapters

• "Canon Law in Lutheran Germany: A Surprising Case of Legal Transplantation" in Lex et Romanitas: Essays for Alan Watson
• "Religious Dimensions of Rights," in Oxford Handbook on Human Rights Law 
• "Religious Freedom, Democracy, and International Law, " in Rethinking Religion and World Affairs 
• "Religion, Human Rights, and International Law" in Handbook on Religion and World Affairs 
• "American Religious Liberty in International Perspective" in Oxford Handbook on Church and State in the United States, 2009
• "First Amendment Religion Clauses and the Supreme Court" in The Praeger Handbook of Religion and Education in the United States
• "The Duties of Love: The Vocation of the Child in the Household Manual Tradition" in The Vocation of the Child, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008
• "Introduction" in Christianity and Law: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• "The Rights and Limits of Proselytism in the New Religious World Order" in Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics, 2008
• "Marriage Agreements from Twelfth-Century Southern France" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Marriage Contracts, Liturgies, and Properties in Reformation Geneva" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Marriage Contracts and the Church Courts of Fourteenth-Century England" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Marriage Contracts in Medieval England" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Marriage Contracts in Medieval Iceland" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Marriage Property Law as Socio-Cultural Text: The Case of Late-Medieval Douai" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Marriage and Diplomatics: Five Dower Charters from the Regions of Laon and Soissons, 1163-1181" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Marrying and Its Documentation in Later Roman Law" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Marrying and Its Documentation in Pre-Modern Europe: Consent, Celebration, and Property" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Marrying and Marriage Litigation in Medieval Ireland" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Marrying and the Tabulae Nuptiales in Roman North Africa from Tertullian to Augustine" in To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "Adams versus Jefferson: From Establishment to Freedom of Public Religion" in God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006
• "A Dickensian Era of Religious Rights: Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Contributions" in God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006
• "Freedom of a Christian: Human Dignity, Liberty, and Equality in the Theology of Martin Luther" in God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006
• "How to Govern a City on a Hill: Puritan Contributions to American Constitutional Law and Liberty" in God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006
• "The Perils of Celibacy: Clerical Celibacy and Marriage in the Protestant Reformation" in Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church: Crisis and Renewal
• "Religious Rights in Eighteenth-Century America: The Original Understanding of the First Amendment" in God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006
• "A Short History of Western Rights" in God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006
• "That Serpentine Wall of Separation Between Church and State" in God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006
• "Introduction" in Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 2nd Ed., Westview Press, 2005
• "Introduction: No Place Like Home" in Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Society in American Life, Georgetown University Press, 2005
• "Ishmael's Bane: The Sin and Crime of Illegitimacy Reconsidered" in The Morality of Adoption: Social-Psychological, Theological, and Legal Perspectives , William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005
• "Religious Liberty (Foundations)" in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, 2005
• "Retrieving and Reconstructing Law, Religion, and Marriage in the Western Tradition" in Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Society in American Life, Georgetown University Press, 2005
• "Covenant Liberty in Puritan New England" in Jurisprudenz, Politische Theorie und Politische Theologie
• "Between Sanctity and Depravity: Human Dignity in Protestant Perspective" in In Defense of Human Dignity: Essays for our Times
• "Law and Legal Theory" in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 3
• "The Tradition of Traditional Marriage" in Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: A Debate
• "An Evangelical Commonwealth: Johannes Eisermann on Law and the Common Good" in Caritas Et Reformatio: Essays in Honor of Carter Lindberg
• "A Page of History is Worth a Volume of Logic" in Religion, Politics, and the American Experience: Reflections on Religion and American Public Life
• "The Biology and Biography of Liberty: Abraham Kuyper and the American Experiment" in Religion, Pluralism, and Public Life: Abraham Kuyper's Legacy for the Twenty-First Century
• "Anglican Marriage Law in the Making: Becon, Bullinger, and Bucer" in The Contentious Triangle: Church, State, and University -- A Festschrift in Honor of Professor George Huntston Williams
• "Introduction" in Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia: The New War for Souls, Orbis Books, 1999
• "The American Constitutional Experiment in Religious Human Rights:The Perennial Search for Principles" in Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives
• "Moderate Religious Liberty in the Theology of John Calvin" in Religious Liberty in Western Thought, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996
• "Introduction" in Christianity and Democracy in Global Context, Westview Press, 1993
• "The Plight of Canon Law in the Early Dutch Republic" in Canon Law in Protestant Lands

Op Eds

• Lift High The Cross? Religion In Public Spaces
• Rights and Resistance: Early Protestant Contributions to Western Democratic Revolutions
• Keeping The Commandments
• Can American Still Bar Polygamy?
• The Future of Marriage
• Sex May be Free, but Children Come with Cost
• Scopes II and Beyond
• Uncomfortable with Public Displays of Religion? Then Avoid Them!
• Same-Sex Marriage?
• The New Freedom of Public Religion

Lectures and Essays

• "Q & A with the Experts: John Witte, Jr." (From Silver to Gold: The Next 25 Years of Law and Religion)
• "Shari'a in the West? What Place for Religious Family Law in America and Other Western Democracies," January 25, 2012 (When Law and Religion Meet 2011-2012)
• ""The Covenant of Marriage: Its Biblical Roots, Historical Influences, and Modern Uses," February 10, 2010
• "Calvin the Lawyer," July 6, 2009
• "The Future of Marriage and Family Life," January 17, 2007 (Family Forum Series 2006-2007)
• "The Challenges of Christian Jurisprudence," March 8-9, 2005
• "The Freedom of a Christian: Martin Luther's Reformation of Law & Liberty," March 8-9, 2005
• "Separation of Church and State: There is No 'Wall'," March 2, 2005 (Family Forum Series 2004-2005)
• "Law and Religion in Modern Legal Education: Legal Positivism and the Rise of Interdisciplinary Legal Study," September 30, 2004
• "Conference Opening: Happily Ever After?," March 27, 2003
• "The Perils of Celibacy: Clerical Marriage and the Protestant Reformation," October 22, 2002
• "An Apt and Cheerful Conversation on Marriage," February 7, 2001

Lecture Tours

• "The Covenant of Marriage: Biblical Roots, Historical Influences, Modern Uses"
  Fuller Seminary
  February 2010
• Freedom of a Christian
  "Market Capitalism: Can Godly Values Make a Difference?"
  J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government, and Public Policy at Wheaton College
  Wheaton, IL
  September 2009
• Keynote Lecture
  "Transformation of Reformation Theology"
  Denmark
  August 2009
• Stead Lecture
  "Separation of Church & State in American History and Today: Facts, Fictions, and Future Challenges"
  Northwestern University, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
  Evanston, IL
  April 2009
• Private Lecture
  "Separation of Church and State in American History and Today"
  Philip Pro Lectureship in Legal History
  University of Las Vegas
  Las Vegas, NV
  March 2009
• Lecture
  "Conference on Concepts of Law"
  University of Heidelberg
  Heidelberg, Germany
  March 2009
• Private Lecture
  "Separation of Church and State - Calvin Style: A 500th Anniversary Celebration"
  Calvin's 500th Birthday Celebration
  Calvin College
  Grand Rapids, MI
  January 2009

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