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Western perceptions of religion and church-state relations must be put aside before productive conversations about law, religion, and human rights can take place in sub-Saharan, according to religious liberty scholars and activists who took part in a conference hosted by the Center for the Study of...

Karen L. Worthington, a senior fellow of the Center for Law and Religion (CSLR), has been named director of Emory Law's Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic, effective August 2008. She had been serving as co-director for the past two years. For more information, go here.  

The Center...

Abdullahi An-Na'im responds to two pieces about Senator Barack Obama, presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, as a possible Muslim apostate. An-Na'im, Emory Law professor and a senior fellow at the Center for Study of Law and Religion, discusses apostasy, its current legal...

John Witte Jr.  has been selected to speak at Emory University's 21st annual Reformation Day Celebration.  He will deliver a lecture titled “Faith in Law: The Enduring Legal Lessons of the Lutheran Reformation” on Tuesday, October 21. This year’s theme is “America’s German...

A new collection of essays edited by Emory Law Professors John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander sets the intellectual stage for an open-ended drama between law and Christianity that has already spanned two millennia and shows no signs of winding down.

Christianity and Law: An Introduction...