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Two Nobel Prize Winners to Address Human Rights at Emory
Nobel Laureates Jimmy Carter and Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights activist, will deliver addresses at "Advancing the Consensus: 60 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," October 16-18, at Emory Law’s Tull Auditorium.
The event celebrates the Declaration’s 60th anniversary...
CSLR Supports Journal of Law and Religion Anniversary
The Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) is sponsoring “Speaking of Law and Religion,” A Symposium to Celebrate 25 Years of Conversation on the Shape and Quality of Our Common Life. The event, honoring the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Law and Religion, takes place October 23-25,...
Witte Op Ed Confronts Cost of Illegitimacy
An op ed by John Witte, Jr. in the August 10 issue of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls for government to hold parents accountable for their illegitimate children. Witte wrote the piece in response to data just released from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Institute for...
New Book, Celebration Mark Transition for Broyde
Atlanta’s Young Israel Synagogue honored Emory Law Professor Michael J. Broyde during a recent celebration marking the end of his 13-year-long tenure as rabbi.
Broyde, a senior fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR), helped found Young Israel in 1994 after realizing...
Conference Raises Questions about Language of Religion
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...
