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Despite the Golden Rule, religious leaders and human rights activists are not always close allies -- but they should be, according to Emory University legal historian John Witte, Jr. in his new book, The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Cambridge...

John Witte, Jr. explains why polygamy isn't legal -- and how it could be in the future -- in a Q&A on the "Religion Writer" blog, produced by reporter Andrea Useem. Witte is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. Go...

Since President Richard M. Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972, the world’s fastest-growing population has been opening up to the good, the bad and the ugly of Western culture, from blue jeans and reality TV to protests for basic freedoms and safer industrial practices. 

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CSLR Associate Editor Amy Wheeler and her family have won the Volunteer Group of the Year Award for their work at Wesley Woods Towers, Emory Healthcare’s geriatric residence located on the Emory campus.  The Georgia Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (GAHSA) presented the award to...

Emory Law Professor David J. Bederman’s new book, The Classical Foundations of the American Constitution (Cambridge University Press), may help the nation’s top courts more accurately interpret gun control and other contentious Constitutional law cases before them today.

“The intent of the framers...