Samuel Bray | Emory University School of Law | Atlanta, GA

Samuel L. Bray, Professor of Law at Notre Dame and faculty fellow at both the University’s Program on Private Law and the Law School Religious Liberty Initiative. An elected member of the American Law Institute, Bray serves as an adviser on the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Remedies. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee for Rules of Procedure for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He has also testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Bray clerked for then-Judge Michael W. McConnell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. With a diverse academic background, Bray has held roles at Columbia Law School, Stanford Law School, UCLA, and the University of Texas-Austin. His work in the area of law and religion focuses primarily on the relationship of equity, remedies, and Christian theology, as well as the use of theological sources by common law judges.