John Witte Jr. | |
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Alma mater | Calvin College Harvard Law School |
Institutions | Emory University School of Law |
Main interests | Marriage and family law; religion, human rights and religious freedom; law and religion; law and Christianity; legal history; legal and political theory |
Website | www |
John Witte Jr. is a Canadian-American academic. He is a Robert W. Woodruff University Professor[1] and a McDonald Distinguished Professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, and is director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion[2] there.[3]
He is series editor of the Emory University Studies in Law and Religion[4] by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, and general editor of the Law and Christianity Series[5] published by Cambridge University Press. In 2022, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on A New Calvinist Reformation of Rights at the University of Aberdeen.[6]
Witte received a BA from Calvin College in 1982, and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1985.[3]
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Witte is married to Eliza Ellison, a theologian and mediator. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.[3]