About the Author: John Witte, Jr.

John Witte, Jr. is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion Center at Emory University.  A specialist in legal history, marriage law, and religious liberty, he has published 200 articles, 13 journal symposia, and 26 books. 

Recent book titles include: From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition, 2^nd ed. (Westminster John Knox Press, 2012), No Establishment of Religion: America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty, (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 3^rd ed. (Westview Press, 2010). Witte is currently working on his 27th book, Why Two in One Flesh? The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy, (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

Professor Witte’s writings have appeared in 12 languages, and he has lectured and convened conferences through North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, Israel, Hong Kong, Australia, and South Africa.  With major funding from the Pew, Ford, Lilly, Luce, and McDonald foundations, he has directed 12 major international projects on democracy, human rights, and religious liberty, and on marriage, family, and children. These projects have collectively yielded more than 160 new volumes and 250 public forums around the world.  He edits two major book series, “Studies in Law and Religion,” and “Religion, Marriage and Family.” He has been selected 10 times by the Emory law students as the Most Outstanding Professor and has won dozens of other awards and prizes for his teaching and research.

Selected Publications by This Author

• ""The Covenant of Marriage: Its Biblical Roots, Historical Influences, and Modern Uses," February 10, 2010
• A Christian Theory of Social Institutions, Paideia Press, 1986
• "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
• "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
• "A Most Mild and Equitable Establishment of Religion: John Adams and the Massachusetts Experiment," Journal of Church and State, Vol. 41 (1999): 213-252
• "A New Concordance of Discordant Canons: Harold J. Berman on Law and Religion," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 42 (1993): 523-560
• "A Page of History is Worth a Volume of Logic" in Religion, Politics, and the American Experience: Reflections on Religion and American Public Life
• "A Primer on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism," Cumberland Law Review, Vol. 31 (2001): 619-630
• "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
• "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
• "American Religious Liberty in International Perspective" in Oxford Handbook on Church and State in the United States, 2009
• "An Apt and Cheerful Conversation on Marriage," February 7, 2001
• "An Evangelical Commonwealth: Johannes Eisermann on Law and the Common Good" in Caritas Et Reformatio: Essays in Honor of Carter Lindberg
• "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
• "Between Sanctity and Depravity: Human Dignity in Protestant Perspective" in In Defense of Human Dignity: Essays for our Times
• "Between Sanctity and Depravity: Law and Human Nature in Martin Luther's Two Kingdoms," Villanova Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 3 (2003): 727-762
• "Blest Be The Ties That Bind: Covenant and Community in Puritan Thought," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 36 (1987): 579-601
• "Calvin the Lawyer," July 6, 2009
• Can American Still Bar Polygamy?
• "Canon Law in Lutheran Germany: A Surprising Case of Legal Transplantation" in Lex et Romanitas: Essays for Alan Watson
• Christian Marriage and Modern Marriage Law, Cambridge University Press 
• Christianity and Democracy in Global Context, Westview Press, 1993
• "Christianity and Democracy: Past Contributions and Future Challenges," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1992): 55-69
• Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2011
• Christianity and Law: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• Lecture
  "Conference on Concepts of Law"
  University of Heidelberg
  Heidelberg, Germany
  March 2009
• "Conference Opening: Happily Ever After?," March 27, 2003
• "Covenant Liberty in Puritan New England" in Jurisprudenz, Politische Theorie und Politische Theologie
• Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005
• "Emory International Law Review," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2011)
• "Facts and Fictions about the History of Separation of Church and State," Journal of Church and State, Vol. 48 (2006): 15-46
• Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Society in American Life, Georgetown University Press, 2005
• "Fides et Libertas," (2010): 13-173
• "First Amendment Religion Clauses and the Supreme Court" in The Praeger Handbook of Religion and Education in the United States
• "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
• "From Establishment to Freedom of Public Religion," Capital University Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2003): 499-518
• From Sacrament to Contract, Second Edition, Westminster John Knox Press, 2012 
• From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion and Law in the Western Tradition, Westminster John Knox Press, 1997
• God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006
• "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother? Child Marriage and Parental Consent in Calvin's Geneva," Journal of Religion, Vol. 86 (2006): 580-605
• "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
• "How to Govern a City on the Hill: The Early Puritan Contribution to American Constitutionalism," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 39 (1990): 41-64
• "Human Rights in a Secular Age," The Immanent Frame (2007)
• "Introduction" in Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005
• "Introduction" in Christianity and Law: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• "Introduction" in The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume I, Columbia University Press, 2005
• "Introduction" in The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume I, , 2005
• "Introduction" in Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia: The New War for Souls, Orbis Books, 1999
• "Introduction" in Christianity and Democracy in Global Context, Westview Press, 1993
• "Introduction" in Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 2nd Ed., Westview Press, 2005
• "Introduction -- Soul Wars: The Problem and Promise of Proselytism in Russia," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 12 (1998): 1-42
• "Introduction: No Place Like Home" in Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Society in American Life, Georgetown University Press, 2005
• "Introduction: The Foundations and Frontiers of Religious Liberty," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 21 (2007): 1-11
• "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
• Keeping The Commandments
• "Law and Legal Theory" in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 3
• Law and Protestantism II: The Legal Teachings of the Calvinist Tradition, Cambridge University Press 
• Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• "Law and Religion in Modern Legal Education: Legal Positivism and the Rise of Interdisciplinary Legal Study," September 30, 2004
• "Law and Religion: The Challenges of Christian Jurisprudence," University of St. Thomas Law Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2005): 439-452
• Lift High The Cross? Religion In Public Spaces
• 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
• "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 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
• "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 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 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
• "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
• "Moderate Religious Liberty in the Theology of John Calvin" in Religious Liberty in Western Thought, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996
• "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
• No Establishment of Religion: America's Original Contribution to Religious Liberty, Oxford University Press, 2012 
• "Prophets, Priests, and Kings: John Milton and the Reformation of Rights and Liberties in England," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 57 (2008): 1527-1604
• Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia: The New War for Souls, Orbis Books, 1999
• "Q & A with the Experts: John Witte, Jr."
• Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2011 
• Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 2nd Ed., Westview Press, 2005
• Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 3rd Ed., Westview Press, 2010 
• Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties, Westview Press, 2000
• "Religion, Human Rights, and International Law" in Handbook on Religion and World Affairs 
• "Religious Dimensions of Rights," in Oxford Handbook on Human Rights Law 
• "Religious Freedom, Democracy, and International Human Rights," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2009)
• "Religious Freedom, Democracy, and International Law, " in Rethinking Religion and World Affairs 
• Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996
• "Religious Liberty (Foundations)" in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, 2005
• "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
• "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
• Rights and Resistance: Early Protestant Contributions to Western Democratic Revolutions
• "Rights, Resistance, and Revolution in the Western Tradition: Early Protestant Foundations," Law and History Review, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2008): 545-570
• Same-Sex Marriage?
• Scopes II and Beyond
• 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 - Calvin Style: A 500th Anniversary Celebration"
  Calvin's 500th Birthday Celebration
  Calvin College
  Grand Rapids, MI
  January 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
• "Separation of Church and State: There is No 'Wall'," March 2, 2005
• Sex May be Free, but Children Come with Cost
• 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
• Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva II: The Christian Household, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 
• "Shari'a in the West? What Place for Religious Family Law in America and Other Western Democracies," January 25, 2012
• "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
• "Symposium, 'The Foundations and Frontiers of Religious Liberty'," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2007): 1-276
• "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
• "The American Constitutional Experiment in Religious Human Rights:The Perennial Search for Principles" in Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives
• "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
• "The Challenges of Christian Jurisprudence," March 8-9, 2005
• "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 Covenant of Marriage: Biblical Roots, Historical Influences, Modern Uses"
  Fuller Seminary
  February 2010
• "The Development of Herman Dooyeweerd's Concept of Rights," South African Law Journal, Vol. 110, No. 3 (1993): 543-562
• "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
• 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 Freedom of a Christian: Martin Luther's Reformation of Law & Liberty," March 8-9, 2005
• "The Future of Law, Religion, and the Family," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2008): 1-102
• The Future of Marriage
• "The Future of Marriage and Family Life," January 17, 2007
• "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 Goods and Goals of Marriage," Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 3 (2001): 1019-1071
• The New Freedom of Public Religion
• "The Perils of Celibacy: Clerical Celibacy and Marriage in the Protestant Reformation" in Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church: Crisis and Renewal
• "The Perils of Celibacy: Clerical Marriage and the Protestant Reformation," October 22, 2002
• "The Plight of Canon Law in the Early Dutch Republic" in Canon Law in Protestant Lands
• The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• "The Rights and Limits of Proselytism in the New Religious World Order" in Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics, 2008
• The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered, Cambridge University Press, 2009
• "The Study of Law and Religion: An Apologia and Agenda," Ministry & Mission, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1988): 4-15
• The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume I, Columbia University Press, 2005
• The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume II, Columbia University Press, 2005
• 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
• "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
• "The Tradition of Traditional Marriage" in Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: A Debate
• "The Transformation of Western Legal Philosophy in the Lutheran Reformation," Southern California Law Review, Vol. 62 (1989): 1573-1660
• The Vocation of the Child, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008
• The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion, Scholars Press, 1988
• To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• Keynote Lecture
  "Transformation of Reformation Theology"
  Denmark
  August 2009
• Uncomfortable with Public Displays of Religion? Then Avoid Them!

About the Author: Frank S. Alexander

FRANK S. ALEXANDER is Sam Nunn Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion.  He is Co-Founder of the Center for Community Progress, an organization that helps U.S. communities integrate vacant, abandoned, and blighted properties back into their economic and civic life.  He has served as Interim Dean of the Law School (2005-2006) and as Visiting Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University (2007). His courses include Property, Real Estate Finance, State and Local Government Law, Law and Theology, and Federal Housing Policies. The author of more than 50 publications in the fields of real estate finance, law and theology, and community development, some of his recent publications include Create Affordable Housing for All,(Spring, 2013); Land Banks, Andrew G. Carswell, ed., The Encyclopedia of Housing 2d edition (2012);  Georgia Real Estate Finance and Foreclosure Law 2011-2012 (6^th ed. 2011); Land Banks and Land Banking (2011), Neighborhood Stabilization Strategies for Vacant and Abandoned Properties (2011), Land Banking As Metropolitan Policy (2008); Louisiana Land Reform in the Storms’ Aftermath (2008); Christianity and Human Rights:  An Introduction (Cambridge Univ. Press 2010) (with John Witte, Jr.); and Christianity and Law:  An Introduction (2008, with John Witte, Jr.).

Recipient of the Emory University Thomas Jefferson Award (2006), the Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Professional School Teaching (2005), the Student Bar Association Award for Most Outstanding Professor (2010, 2004), the Laura Jones Hardman Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service (2001), the Ben F. Johnson Faculty Excellence Award (1998), and the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching in Professional Education (1991), Professor Alexander was selected eight times as the Professor Who Best Exemplifies the Ideals of the Legal Profession by the Emory Student Bar Association. 

Founder of Emory University's Law and Religion Program in 1982, Professor Alexander's work in recent years has focused on community development and affordable housing.  From 1993 to 1996, he served as a Fellow of the Carter Center of Emory University, specializing in neighborhood redevelopment activities and low-income housing in conjunction with The Atlanta Project.  He served as a Commissioner of the State Housing Trust Fund for the Homeless from 1994-98.   In May, 2008 he testified before Congressional subcommittees on the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, and in November, 2009 on strategies to address the mortgage foreclosure crisis.

Professor Alexander is past Chairman of Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater Atlanta, a non-profit community service agency providing consumer credit counseling, and of Community Friendship, Inc., a non-profit psycho-social rehabilitation program for the chronically mentally ill.  He is the recipient of The George A. Pindar Award, Real Property Law Section, State Bar of Georgia (2006), the Inspiration Award for Outstanding Leadership in the Public Interest, Emory Public Interest Committee (EPIC) (2002), the Outstanding Service Award of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society (1996), the Georgia Affordable Housing Award for Individual Initiatives (1995), and the Citizen’s Award for Outstanding Service from the Fulton County/City of Atlanta Land Bank Authority (1995).

Professor Alexander received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina.

Selected Publications by This Author

• A City for All: Report of the Gentrification Task Force of the Atlanta City Council, Fannie Mae Foundation/LISC, 2001
• "Baltimore City Land Bank: Laying the Foundations," July 22-23, 2008
• Lecture
  "Baltimore City Land Bank: Laying the Foundations"
  Mayor's Task Force on the Land Bank Authority
  Baltimore, MD
  July 2008
• Testimony
  "before Georgia Senate Banking and Finance Committee and the Georgia House Judiciary Committee"
  Senate Bill 531
  Georgia General Assembly
  Atlanta, GA
  March 2008
• Testimony
  "before the U.S. House of Representatives, Join Hearing of Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Domestic Policy Subcommittee, and Financial Services Committee"
  about mortgage foreclosure crisis legislation
  U.S. Congress
  Washington, D.C.
  May 2008
• Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2011
• Christianity and Law: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• "Constitutional Questions About Tax Lien Foreclosures," Government Finance Review, Vol. 16 (2000)
• "Don't Bet the House," Partners in Community and Economic Development, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2007)
• "East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority: From Planning to Execution," December 12, 2008
• Lecture
  "East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority: From Planning to Execution"
  Planning Commission of the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge
  Baton Rouge, LA
  December 2008
• Georgia Real Estate Finance & Foreclosure Law 2009-2010, Thomson-West, 2009
• Georgia Real Estate Finance & Foreclosure Law, 4th Edition, Thomson-West, 2004
• "Housing After the Crash... Creating Better Options for our Future," October 5, 2009
• Panel
  "Housing After the Crash... Creating Better Options for our Future"
  World Habitat Day
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  Atlanta, GA
  October 2009
• Housing Trust Funds for Local Governments in Georgia, Fannie Mae Foundation/LISC, 2002
• "Housing Trust Funds for Metropolitan Atlanta" in Making the Case for Mixed Income and Mixed Use Communities
• "Inherent Tensions Between Home Rule and Regional Planning," Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 35 (2000): 539-561
• "Introduction" in The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume I, Columbia University Press, 2005
• "Introduction" in The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume I, , 2005
• Land Bank Authorities: A Guide for the Creation and Operation of Local Land Banks, Fannie Mae Foundation/LISC, 2005
• "Land Bank Strategies for Renewing Urban Land," Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, Vol. 14 (2005): 140-169
• Webcast
  "Land Banking as a Foreclosure Mitigation Strategy"
  National Housing Conference
  December 2009
• Podcast Series
  "Land Banking as a Foreclosure Mitigation Strategy"
  Foreclosure Response Podcast Series
  Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
  Atlanta, GA
  September 2009
• "Land Banking as a Foreclosure Mitigation Strategy, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta," September 30, 2009
• "Land Banking as a Foreclosure Mitigation Strategy, National Housing Conference," December 8, 2009
• "Land Banking as Metropolitan Policy," October 29, 2008
• Land Banks and Land Banking, Center for Community Progress, 2011 
• "Land Use Planning by Design and by Disaster" in Law and Recovery from Disaster: Hurricane Katrina 
• "Law and Health Promotion - The Case for Physical Activity: The Context for Legal Authority and Decision Making," May 12, 2009
• Public Lecture
  "Law and Health Promotion - The Case for Physical Activity: The Context for Legal Authority and Decision Making"
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Atlanta, GA
  May 2009
• "LBAs, CLTs, and the Foreclosure Crisis," September 3, 2008
• Forum
  "LBAs, CLTs, and the Foreclosure Crisis"
  Atlanta Regional Housing Forum
  Atlanta, GA
  September 2008
• "Lessons to Learn from the Current Mortgage Crisis," November 2, 2009
• Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives
  "Lessons to Learn from the Current Mortgage Crisis"
  Committee on Governmental Oversight and Reform, Domestic Policy Subcommittee
  Washington, D.C.
  November 2009
• "Life Together: How Housing Law Defines America's Families," February 7, 2005
• Symposium
  "Louisiana Land Reform in the Storms' Aftermath"
  Loyola Law School
  New Orleans, LA
  January 2008
• "Louisiana Land Reforms in the Storms' Aftermath," January 18, 2008
• "Lousiana Land Reform in the Storms' Aftermath," Loyola Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 4 (2008): 727-762
• "Neighborhood Stabilization and Land Banking," Communities & Banking, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2009)
• "Policy Reform and Regulatory Strategies for Vacant Property Reclamation: Federal Responses to Vacant Properties," May 8, 2009
• "Policy Reform and Regulatory Strategies for Vacant Property Reclamation: Federal Responses to Vacant Properties"
  Ford Foundation
  New York, NY
  May 2009
• "Property and Christian Theology" in Christianity and Law: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• "Q & A with the Experts: Frank S. Alexander"
• Renewing Public Assets for Community Development, Fannie Mae Foundation/LISC, 2000
• Testimony
  "Senate Bill 57 and House Bill 264 - mortgage finance and foreclosure legislation"
  Georgia House of Representatives Judiciary Committee
  Atlanta, GA
  March 2009
• Lecture
  "Stabilizing Neighborhoods with Concentrations of Vacant and Abandoned Properties"
  Federal Reserve Board
  Minneapolis, MN
  September 2008
• "Tax Liens, Tax Sales and Due Process," Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 75 (2000): 747-807
• "Testimony before Baltimore City Council," June 17, 2009
• Testimony
  "Testimony before Baltimore City Council"
  Taxation and Finance Committee, on City Council Bill #09-0261
  Baltimore City Land Bank Authority
  Baltimore, MD
  June 2009
• "Testimony before Georgia Senate Banking and Finance Committee and the Georgia House Judiciary Committee," March 4 and 25, 2008
• "Testimony before the Georgia House of Representatives Judiciary Committee," March 20 and 24, 2009
• Testimony
  "Testimony before the Ohio General Assembly"
  Senate Committee on Ways & Means and Economic Development, House Committee on Local Government and Public Administration, House Bill 313/Senate Bill 188
  December 2009
• "Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Joint Hearing of Oversight and Government REform Committee," May 22, 2008
• "Testimony, Ohio General Assembly, Senate Committee on Ways & Means and Economic Development," December 2, 2009
• "The Context for Legal Authority and Decision Making, Supporting Development at the State Level," June 29, 2009
• Public Lecture
  "The Context for Legal Authority and Decision Making, Supporting Development at the State Level"
  National Housing Conference
  Chicago, IL
  June 2009
• "The Conviction of Things Not Seen: A Tribute to Hal Berman," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 57, No. 6 (2008): 1393
• "The Evolving Legal Landscape for Louisiana Redevelopment," August 14, 2008
• Summit
  "The Evolving Legal Landscape for Louisiana Redevelopment"
  Summit on Smart Growth
  Center for Planning Excellence
  Baton Rouge, LA
  August 2008
• "The Foreclosure Crisis and Community Loss Mitigation," February 13, 2009
• Richard E. Nelson Symposium
  "The Foreclosure Crisis and Community Loss Mitigation"
  University of Florida Levin College of Law
  Gainesville, FL
  February 2009
• "The Foreclosure Process and Community Loss Mitigation," July 15, 2008
• Symposium
  "The Foreclosure Process and Community Loss Mitigation"
  Symposium on Stabilizing Communities: Addressing the Negative Impacts of Foreclosure
  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  Los Angeles, CA
  July 2008
• "The HERA Neighborhood Stabilization Program, Land Banking and Housing Trusts," November 19, 2008
• Lecture
  "The HERA Neighborhood Stabilization Program, Land Banking and Housing Trusts"
  OneAthens Housing Group
  Athens, GA
  November 2008
• "The HERA Neighborhood Stabilization Program: Converting Liabilities into Assets," October 8, 2008
• "The Housing of America's Families: Control, Exclusion, and Privilege," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3 (2005): 1231-1270
• "The Mortgage Crisis, the Credit Crisis, and $700 Billion," October 6, 2008
• Lecture
  "The Mortgage Crisis, the Credit Crisis, and $700 Billion"
  Emory University School of Law
  Atlanta, GA
  October 2008
• "The Structure of Law in Public Health Systems and Practice" in Law in Public Health Practice, 2nd Edition
• "The Structure of Law in Public Health Systems and Practice" in Law in Public Health Practice, 2nd ed.
• "The Study of Law and Religion: An Apologia and Agenda," Ministry & Mission, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1988): 4-15
• The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume I, Columbia University Press, 2005
• The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume II, Columbia University Press, 2005
• 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
• The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion, Scholars Press, 1988
• "Theology and Law," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 54 (2005): 325
• "Transforming Foreclosed Properties into Community Assets: Framing the Solutions and Opportunities for Intervention," May 2, 2008
• Lecture
  "Transforming Foreclosed Properties into Community Assets: Framing the Solutions and Opportunities for Intervention"
  Furman Center for Real Estate
  NYU Law School
  New York, NY
  May 2008
• "Vacant and Foreclosed Properties - State Laws and Federal Responses," June 2, 2009
• Public Lecture
  "Vacant and Foreclosed Properties - State Laws and Federal Responses"
  National Vacant Properties Campaign
  Louisville, KY
  June 2009
• "William Stringfellow (1928-1985)" in The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume I, Columbia University Press, 2005
• "William Stringfellow (1928-1985)" in The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, Volume II, , 2005