John Witte, Jr.

John Witte, Jr. is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. His research focuses on religious liberty, marriage and family law, human rights, and legal history. Witte has directed a number of major projects at the Center related to democracy, human rights, and religious freedom; Christian Jurisprudence; and sex, marriage, family, and children. He will focus on the contributions of early modern European Calvinism to practices of religious and political freedom in the 16th and 17th centuries for the Christianity and Freedom Project at the Berkley Center. He is the author of many volumes, among them Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (2d ed. Westview Press 2005), a two-volume set with F.S. Alexander titled The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics and Human Nature (Columbia 2006), and The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Cambridge 2008). Witte is a graduate of Calvin College and Harvard Law School.