John Witte Jr., J.D.

Professor John Witte Jr. is Robert W. Woodruff University Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor of Religion, and faculty director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. A leading specialist in legal history, human rights, religious freedom, marriage and family law, and law and religion, he has published 350 articles, 19 journal symposia, and 45 books. With major funding from the Pew, Ford, Lilly, Luce, and McDonald foundations, Professor Witte has directed 20 major international projects on democracy, human rights, and religious liberty; on marriage, family, and children; and on law and Christianity. He is series editor of Emory Studies in Law and Religion (Eerdmans) and Cambridge Studies in Law and Christianity (Cambridge University Press), and series coeditor of Brill Research Perspectives on Law and Religion (Brill), Colección Raices del Derecho (Thomson Reuter/Aranzadi), and in Chinese, Emory Law, Religion, and Culture Series (Bouden House). He also coedits the Journal of Law and Religion (Cambridge University Press). Professor Witte holds a J.D. from Harvard University and a D. Theol. h.c. from the University of Heidelberg.

Relevant Publications

• Faith, Freedom, and Family: New Studies in Law and Religion, ed. Norman Doe and Gary S. Hauk, Untersuchungen über Recht und Religion 2 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021), https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/faith-freedom-and-family-9783161608766/.
• John Witte Jr., Joel A. Nichols, and Richard W. Garnett, Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 5th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/religion-and-the-american-constitutional-experiment-9780197587621?cc=us&lang=en&#. 
• The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/jurisprudence/blessings-liberty-human-rights-and-religious-freedom-western-legal-tradition?format=PB.
• T. Jeremy Gunn and John Witte Jr. (eds.), No Establishment of Religion: America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-establishment-of-religion-9780199860395?cc=ca&lang=en&#.