Faculty Academic Enrichment - John Witte, Jr.
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Mar 9, 2009
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105
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Professor John Witte, Jr., of Emory U. will talk to faculty on "Creches, Crosses, and the Courts: The Constitutional Battles Over Religious Symbols in Public Life." Professor Witte will also give the Pro Lecture this evening in the Moot Court Auditorium.
John Witte, Jr. is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law 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 150 articles, 11 journal symposia, and 23 books – including recently Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (2000, 2d. ed. 2005); Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (2002); Sex, Marriage and Family Life in John Calvin’s Geneva (2005); Modern Christian Teachings on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, 2 vols. (2006); God’s Joust, God’s Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition (2006); The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (2007); and Christianity and Law: An Introduction (2008). His writings have appeared in ten languages, and he has lectured through North America, Western Europe, Japan, Israel, and South Africa. He has been selected ten 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.
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