#  John Witte, Jr. 

Woodruff University Professor and McDonald Distinguished Professor

Director of the Law and Religion Center

Emory University

 

 

 



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 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).