John Witte, Jr.
Woodruff University Professor and McDonald Distinguished Professor
Director of the Law and Religion Center
Emory University
John Witte, Jr., JD (Harvard); Dr. Theol. h.c. (Heidelberg), is Woodruff University Professor, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Law and Religion Center at Emory University. A leading scholar of legal history, human rights, family law, and law and religion, he has published 300 articles and 45 books, including recently Church, State, and Family (Cambridge 2019), The Blessings of Liberty (Cambridge, 2021), Faith, Freedom, and Family (Mohr Siebeck, 2021), and Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (Oxford, 2022).