John Witte Jr. is Robert W. Woodruff 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, family law, and law and religion, Witte has published 45 books, 350 articles, and 18 journal symposia; some of his writings have appeared in sixteen languages. He has delivered 450 public lectures throughout the world, including endowed lectureships at Yale, Heidelberg, Berkeley, McGill, Oxford, Cambridge, Hong Kong, and Edinburgh, and recently the Gifford Lectures at Aberdeen. He edits several book series published by leading academic presses. Witte has won numerous grants and awards for his teaching and research, including recent induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a Dr. Theol. h.c. from the University of Heidelberg. 

Whittney Barth is an associate teaching professor at Emory University School of Law and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, where she also holds the title of Charlotte McDaniel Scholar. Barth teaches courses in law and religion and in employment law and her scholarship appears in the Notre Dame Law Review (forthcoming), ABA Journal of Labor and Employment Law (forthcoming), Chicago Journal of International Law, University of Illinois Law Review Online (co-authored), and in multi-author volumes published by Oxford University and Georgetown University presses. Prior to arriving at Emory, Barth was a litigator with a nationally recognized plaintiffs’ firm, working primarily on employment discrimination matters. She holds a JD from the University of Chicago Law School and an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School.