Curriculum Vitae
Perry Dane
Rutgers Law School
217 North Fifth Street
Camden, New Jersey 08102
(856) 225-6004 (work)
(610) 896-5702 (home)
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Current Position
1995-Present Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
(previously Rutgers School of Law - Camden)
Inaugural Dean’s Award for Scholarly Excellence, 2011
Rutgers-Camden Civic Engagement Fellow, 2014
Previous Positions:
1992-95
Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law - Camden
1986-92
Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School
1983-86
Assistant Professor of Law, Yale Law School
1982-83
Law Clerk to Hon. William J. Brennan, Jr., Associate Justice,
United States Supreme Court
1981-82
Law Clerk to Hon. David L. Bazelon, Senior Judge, United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
1980
Summer Associate, Wilmer & Pickering (now Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and
Dorr LLP), Washington, D.C.
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Previous Positions (cont.):
1979
Summer Associate, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York City
Fellowships:
2010-11
Full-Time Resident Fellow, Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization, New
York University School of Law
2000-2001
Faculty Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick. Program on “Secularism”
Visitorships and Adjunctships:
2010-11
Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, teaching a
seminar on “Religion, Law, and Morality” and supervising J.D. directed
research papers and an LL.M. thesis.
Jan. 2008
Visiting Professor of Law, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, teaching
an intensive “January Term” course on “Religion and the State in
Cross-National Perspective.”
Sum. 2005
Visiting Professor of Law, Southwestern University School of Law, teaching
“Religion and the Law.”
Jan. 1997
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Legal Theory, University of Toronto Faculty
of Law, teaching an Intensive Course on “Religion and the Law.”
Fall 1996
Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School,
teaching Conflict of Laws.
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Other Formal Academic Affiliations and Positions:
2009-Present Affiliated Scholar, Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at
Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University.
2008-Present Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Law and Philosophy at the Rutgers School of Law Camden.
1992-1993
Research Affiliate, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.
1991-1993
Member, national seminar of the Project on Religious Institutions, Program on
Non-Profit Organizations, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale
University.
Education:
Yale Law School, J.D. 1981
Note Editor, YALE LAW JOURNAL, Volume 90 (1980-81)
Israel H. Peres Prize, awarded by the faculty for “the best student contribution to the YALE
LAW JOURNAL”
Internship with Hon. Robert I. Berdon, Judge, Connecticut Superior Court
Yale College, B.A. 1978
Special Divisional Major – Anthropological Philosophy
Phi Beta Kappa
Summa Cum Laude
Distinction in the Major
Charles E. Clark Memorial Award for highest standing and academic excellence
in Silliman (Residential) College
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Education (cont.):
Buck-Jackson Oratorical Contest, Third Prize
J. Edward Meeker Prize in English
Yale Political Union
Speaker (presiding officer at meetings), Fall 1977
Floor Leader, Spring 1977
Party Chair, Fall 1976
Varsity Debate Team
Telluride Association Summer Program, 1973
“Democracy in America,” Telluride Association Cornell Branch, Ithaca, New York
Columbia University Science Honors Program for High School Students
Courses Taught:
Religion and the Law
Religion and the Law: Doctrine and Advocacy
Conflict of Laws
Constitutional Law
Jurisdiction
Law of Charities and Nonprofit Organizations
The Debate on Same-Sex Marriage
Same-Sex Marriage: Continuing Issues
Education Law
American Indian Law
The Canadian Legal System
Law, Religion, and Morality (titled Religion, Law, and Morality at NYU)
“Legalism” (Seminar)
Religion and the State in Cross-National Perspective (Seminar)
“Pluralism in American Law and Culture” (Undergraduate Honors Seminar)
Abortion
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Courses Taught (cont.):
Contracts
Jurisprudence of Jewish Law
Moral and Legal Bases of Contractual Obligation
Publications:
Establishment and Encounter, ___ JOURNAL OF LAW & RELIGION ____ (Cambridge
University Press) (symposium issue on papers from the 2016 Venice Conference on
“Scopes of Religious Establishment”) (forthcoming).
Scopes of Religious Exemption: A Normative Map, in RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS (Michale
Weber & Kevin Vallier, eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017) (Papers
from the 2015 Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy on
“The Scope of Religious Exemptions.”), available at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2812377
Master Metaphors and Double-Coding in the Encounters of Religion and State, 53 SAN
DIEGO LAW REVIEW 53 (2016) (Symposium Issue on Law and Religion), available at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2716207
Foreword: On Religious Constitutionalism, 16 RUTGERS JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 460
(2015) (Symposium Issue on “A Religious Constitution: The Integration of Church
and State”), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2687833 and
http://lawandreligion.com/sites/lawandreligion.com/files/01_Dane.pdf
Judaism, Pluralism, and Constitutional Glare, 16 RUTGERS JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION
282 (2015) (Symposium Issue on “People of the Book: Judaism's Influence on
American Legal Scholarship”), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2601610 and
http://lawandreligion.com/sites/lawandreligion.com/files/Dane_Formatted.pdf
Prayer is Serious Business: Reflections on Town of Greece, 15 RUTGERS JOURNAL OF LAW
AND RELIGION 611 (2014), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2535931 and
http://lawandreligion.com/sites/lawandreligion.com/files/2014_Vol.15_Dane.pdf
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Publications (cont.):
Saving Rutgers-Camden (with Allan Stein and Robert F. Williams), 44 RUTGERS LAW
JOURNAL 337 (2014), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2302826
Natural Law, Equality, and Same-Sex Marriage, 62 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 291 (2014),
available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2338239
The Natural Law Challenge to Choice of Law, in THE ROLE OF ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL
LAW (Donald E. Childress, III, ed., a volume in ASIL Studies in International Legal
Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2011),
available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1710904
Review of ABDUALLAHI AHMED AN-NA<IM, ISLAM AND THE SECULAR STATE: NEGOTIATING
THE FUTURE OF SHARI<A (Harvard University Press, 2008), in Ancient Traditions:
New Conversations, the Blog of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary
Civilization at Cardozo Law School, March 8, 2011, available at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1843627 and
http://blogs.yu.edu/cjl/2011/03/08/islam-and-the-secular-state/
Conflict of Laws, in A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY
197-208 (Second Edition) (Dennis Patterson, ed., a volume in the Blackwell
Companions to Philosophy Series, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010),
available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1536767
Russian translation pending in Ïðàâîâåäåíèå (Jurisprudence), a journal of St.
Petersburg State University (2017) (Vasily Tokarev, trans.)
Constitutional Law and Religion, in A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL
THEORY 119-131 (Second Edition) (Dennis Patterson, ed., a volume in the Blackwell
Companions to Philosophy Series, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), available at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1558102
Russian translation pending in Ïðàâîâåäåíèå (Jurisprudence), a journal of St.
Petersburg State University (2017) (Vasily Tokarev, trans.)
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Publications (cont.):
Take These Words: The Abiding Lure of the Hebrew Bible In-Itself, 4 HEBRAIC POLITICAL
STUDIES 230-265 (2009) (Symposium Issue on “The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary
Intellectual Discourse”), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1440981 and
http://www.hpstudies.org/20/article.aspx?articleid=126
A Holy Secular Institution, 58 EMORY LAW JOURNAL 1123 (2009), available at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1293946
Joseph Henry Beale, Jr., in THE YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW 31
(Roger K. Newman, ed., Yale University Press 2009), available at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1413002
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE UNITED STATES 217 (David S. Tanenhaus, ed., Gale 2008), available at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1302238
Flags in Context: A Discussion of Design, Genre, and Aesthetics, 15 RAVEN: A JOURNAL OF
VEXILLOLOGY 43 (2008), available at www.ssrn.com/abstract=1306168
Sad Time: Thoughts on Jurisdictionality, the Legal Imagination, and Bowles v. Russell, 102
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW COLLOQUY 164 (2008),
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/Colloquy/2008/2,
also available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1094587
Separation Anxiety, 22 JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 545 (2007) (review essay on NOAH
FELDMAN, DIVIDED BY GOD: AMERICA’S CHURCH-STATE PROBLEM (2005)), available
at http://ssrn.com/abstract=965458
Exemptions for Religion Contained in Regulatory Statutes, in 1 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES 559 (Paul Finkelman, ed., Routledge 2006),
available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=976714
Hernandez v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue 490 U.S. 680 (1989), in
2 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES 761 (Paul Finkelman, ed.,
Routledge 2006), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=980786
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Publications (cont.):
Zablocki v. Redhail, 434 U.S. 374 (1978), in 3 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL
LIBERTIES 1811 (Paul Finkelman, ed., Routledge 2006),
available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1001132
A Fountain of Renewal, in THE COMMON MAN AS UNCOMMON MAN: REMEMBERING JUSTICE
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. 71 (E. Joshua Rosenkranz and Thomas M. Jorde, eds.,
William J. Brennan Center for Justice 2006)
“Omalous” Autonomy, 2004 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1715 (Symposium
Issue on “Church Autonomy”), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=946475
Magic and Ritual on Yom Kippur, 8 KEREM: CREATIVE EXPLORATIONS IN JUDAISM 116
(2002)
Book Review, 17 JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 207 (2002) (reviewing ABRAHAM HIRSCH
RABINOWITZ, THE STUDY OF TALMUD: UNDERSTANDING THE HALAKHIC MIND).
The Varieties of Religious Autonomy, in CHURCH AUTONOMY: A COMPARATIVE SURVEY 117
(Gerhard Robbers, ed., Peter Lang Publishers 2001) (Collected Papers of the Second
European/American Conference on Religious Freedom: Church Autonomy and
Religious Liberty, held in 1999 at the University of Trier),
available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2307670
The Intersecting Worlds of Religious and Secular Marriage, in LAW AND RELIGION: CURRENT
LEGAL ISSUES, Vol. 4, at 385 (Richard O’Dair & Andrew Lewis, eds., Oxford
University Press 2001) (Collected Papers of the Fourth Current Legal Issues
Colloquium, held in 2000 at the Faculty of Laws, University College, London).
Bugliosi’s Chaotic Book Evaluates Flaws in Bush v. Gore, THE LEGAL INTELLIGENCER, June
22, 2001, at 7 (reviewing VINCENT BUGLIOSI, THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICA: HOW THE
SUPREME COURT UNDERMINED THE CONSTITUTION AND CHOSE OUR PRESIDENT
(2001)).
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Publications (cont.):
Pluralities of Justice, Modalities of Peace: The Role of Law(s) in a Palestinian-Israeli
Accommodation, 32 CASE WESTERN RESERVE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
273 (2000), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1443400
Whereof One Cannot Speak: Legal Diversity and the Limits of a Restatement of Conflict of
Laws, 75 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 511 (1999) (Symposium Issue on a Third
Restatement of Conflict of Laws).
Spirited Debate: A Comment on Edward Foley’s Jurisprudence and Theology, 66 FORDHAM
LAW REVIEW 1213 (1998) (Symposium Issue on “The Relevance of Religion to a
Lawyer’s Work: An Interfaith Conference”)
Remarks, Memorial Proceedings before the New Jersey Supreme Court for the Honorable
William J. Brennan, Jr. (Nov. 18, 1997), in 158 NEW JERSEY REPORTS., at pp. xxvii,
xxxix-xliii (1999)
The Corporation Sole and the Encounter of Law and Church, in SACRED COMPANIES:
ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF ORGANIZATIONS
50 (Nicholas Jay Demerath III, Peter Dobkin Hall, Terry Schmitt, & Rhys H.
Williams., eds., under the auspices of the Project on Religious Institutions, Program
on Non-Profit Organizations, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale
University, Oxford University Press 1998)
Sovereign Dignity and Glorious Chaos: A Comment on the Interjurisdictional Implications of
the Entire Controversy Doctrine, 28 RUTGERS LAW JOURNAL 173 (1996) (Symposium
Issue on the “Entire Controversy Doctrine”)
The Public, the Private, and The Sacred: Variations on a Theme of Nomos and Narrative, 8
CARDOZO STUDIES IN LAW AND LITERATURE 15 (1996) (Commemorative Volume on
the Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Robert M. Cover)
Conflict of Laws in A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY 209
(Dennis Patterson, ed., a volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series,
Blackwell Publishers, 1996).
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Publications (cont.):
Constitutional Law and Religion in A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL
THEORY 113 (Dennis Patterson, ed., a volume in the Blackwell Companions to
Philosophy Series, Blackwell Publishers, 1996).
Jurisdictionality, Time, and the Legal Imagination, 23 HOFSTRA LAW REVIEW 1 (1994).
The Yoke of Heaven, the Question of Sinai, and the Life of Law, 44 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
LAW JOURNAL 353 (1994),
available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714071
Correspondence, RECONSTRUCTION, Vol. 1, issue 4, at 3 (1992) (invited comments on Ian
Haney-López, Community Ties, Race, and Faculty Hiring: The Case for Professors
Who Don’t Think White, RECONSTRUCTION, Vol. 1, issue 3, at 46 (1991)).
The Oral Law and the Jurisprudence of a Textless Text, S’VARA: A JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY,
LAW, AND JUDAISM, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 1991, at 11,
available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1718700 and
www.columbia.edu/cu/law/svara/svara_2-2_dane.pdf
Maps of Sovereignty: A Meditation, 12 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 959 (1991).
Vested Rights, “Vestedness,” and Choice of Law, 96 YALE LAW JOURNAL 1191 (1987).
reprinted in part in A CONFLICT-OF-LAWS ANTHOLOGY 292 (Gene R. Shreve, ed.,
Anderson Publishing Co., 1997)
D’var Torah on Parsha Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20),
1 ORIM: A JEWISH JOURNAL AT YALE 124 (Spring 1985).
Note, Religious Exemptions Under the Free Exercise Clause: A Model of Competing e
Authorities, 90 YALE LAW JOURNAL 350 (1980).
The “Prime Derivative,” 7 JOURNAL OF RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS 111 (1974).
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Publications (cont.):
Unpublished Essays and Talks Available Online:
“My Name is Great Among the Nations: A D’Var Torah on Parshat Toldot,”
available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=2890283
“The Hearts of the Parents to Their Children; the Hearts of the Children to Their Parents:
D’var Torah for Shabbat Hagadol,” available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2766013
“My Signs That I Have Done among Them: A D’var Torah on Parshat Bo,” available at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2717133
“The Spark of Intimate Resemblance: A Shabbat HaGadol D’var Torah on Parshat Tzav,”
available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2588235
“Doctrine and Deep Structure in the Contraception Mandate Debate,” available at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2296635
“Christmas,” available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=947613
Invited occasional contributor to group blogs:
“Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John’s School of Law”:
http://clrforum.org/category/commentary/
author archive at http://clrforum.org/author/perrydane/
“Religious Left Law”: http://www.religiousleftlaw.com/
author archive at http://www.religiousleftlaw.com/perry-dane
“Law, Religion, and Ethics”: http://lawreligionethics.net/
author archive at http://lawreligionethics.net/author/perrydane
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Publications (cont.):
Newspaper and Online Columns:
A Q&A with Rutgers Law Prof. Perry Dane on Justice Antonin Scalia and the Search for his
Successor, Rutgers Today, March 1, 2016, available at http://tinyurl.com/hm2fl2u
Can Supreme Court Take a Lesson from Jewish Law on Scalia Replacement?, THE FORWARD,
February 22, 2016, available at http://tinyurl.com/hk77kex
Natural, Civil, and Religious: Bridging the Divide over Same-Sex Marriage,
Rutgers-Camden News Now, March 2013, available at http://tinyurl.com/d2379g5
The Chief Justice and the Individual Mandate, WHYY NewsWorks, June 29, 2012, available
at http://tinyurl.com/Dane-Individual-Mandate
Living With the Tension, THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD, March 23, 2012, p. 9, available at
http://tinyurl.com/Dane-Forward
Stevens retirement a “poignant moment” for Rutgers–Camden law professor,
Rutgers-Camden Faculty Experts Blog, April 30, 2010
available at http://tinyurl.com/Dane-re-Stevens
Some Class Day Thoughts on Law, Religion, Rutgers, and the RJLR, Alumni Newsletter of
the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. Fall 2009, p. 6, available at
http://www.lawandreligion.com/Fall2009News.pdf
Walls: Meditations from Israel, THE PHILADELPHIA JEWISH VOICE, # 21, March 2007,
available at www.pjvoice.com/v21/21004walls.aspx
O’Connor’s opinions are her legacy, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, July 16, 2003, A17.
Where do we go from here? Postelection thoughts, RUTGERS FOCUS, January 19, 2001, at 4,
available at tinyurl.com/danewhere
Bush vs. Gore: What Matters Most: Bush spurring fear on courts and economy,
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, October 29, 2000, at E7.
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Publications (cont.):
An awkwardly timed State of the Union: Combining pageantry and politics, PHILADELPHIA
INQUIRER, January 20, 1999, at A19.
In the Senate, compromise is just a few good words away, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, January
3, 1999, at E7.
Presidents, prosecutors, and the rule of law: Clinton and Starr have both abused honorable
precepts, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, September 21, 1998, at A13.
A judge who was honest with the law and himself, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, August 3, 1997,
at E7 (remembrance of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.).
The latest attempt to betray Native Americans, HARTFORD COURANT, May 29, 1991, at D13.
Newspaper and Magazine Letters:
On Hart Island, Missed Friends and Common Graves, Letter to the Editor, THE NEW YORK
TIMES, June 6, 2016, at A20, available at http://nyti.ms/1XxNk3q
Deli and Synagogue, Letter to the Editor, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, November
1, 2015, at BR6, available at http://nyti.ms/1PeFBB6
Civil and Religious Marriage, Letter to the Editor, THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 14, 2015,
at A22, available at http://nyti.ms/14YraxS
Competing Ethics, Letter to the Editor, THE NEW YORKER, June 23, 2014, at 6, available at
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2014/06/23/140623mama_mail.
Judaism and DNA, Letter to the Editor, Science Section, THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 11,
2013, at D3, available at http://tinyurl.com/dane-dna
Rutgers Compact, Letter to the Editor, THE STAR-LEDGER, July 12, 2012, available at
tinyurl.com/Dane-Star-Ledger-Rutgers
Destructive Merger Unnecessary, Letter to the Editor, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, March 18,
2012, at C5, available at www.philly.com/philly/opinion/142982575.html
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Publications (cont.):
The Atheist Who Challenged Cranston, Letter to the Editor, THE NEW YORK TIMES,
February 1, 2012, at A26 , available at tinyurl.com/dane020112
Rush Is Just Getting Warmed Up, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, July 20, 2008, at 8,
available at www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20letters-t.html
Architects and Ethics: One Dilemma Too Many, Arts & Leisure Section, THE NEW YORK
TIMES, June 29, 2008, at 2, available at tinyurl.com/4xe5rkp
Are You There, God?, Letter to the Editor, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW,
May 27, 2007, at 5 (commenting on Michael Kinsley’s review of CHRISTOPHER
HITCHENS, GOD IS NOT GREAT (2007)),
available at www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/books/review/Letters-t-1.html
Science and the Bible, Letter to the Editor, ACADEME, May-June 2007,
available at tinyurl.com/daneaaup
Church and State: Tipping a Delicate Balance?, Letter to the Editor, THE NEW YORK TIMES,
October 15, 2006, §4, p. 11.
Enshrining the Names of 9/11, Letter to the Editor, THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 7, 2006, §A,
p. 16.
Jews and the Covenant, Correspondence, FIRST THINGS, February 2006, at 5 (responding to
Cardinal Avery Dulles’s article on “The Covenant with Israel.”),
available at www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=81
Undue Burden, Correspondence, THE NEW REPUBLIC, December 19, 2005, at 4.
Sorting Out the Shoots, Correspondence, THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Vol. 11, Issue 3, October
3, 2005, at 5.
“Magdalene Sisters”: Fires of Hell, Letter, Arts & Leisure Section, THE NEW YORK TIMES,
August 17, 2003, § 2, p. 2.
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Meaningless Label, Letter to the Editor, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, August 17, 2003, §C, p. 4.
To Right the Wrongs of Slavery, Letter to the Editor, THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 31, 2000,
at § A, p. 26.
School Prayer Can Both Exclude and Coerce; No Amendment Needed, Letter to the Editor,
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 27, 1994, § 4, p. 10,
available at http://tinyurl.com/qfz583r.
Works-in-Progress:
Hanging By a Thread: Toward a Jurisprudence of Jewish Law
Natural, Civil, and Religious: A Discourse on Same-Sex Marriage
“The Bloody Surgeon of Bologna”
“Original Public Meaning in the Land of Now”
“Privacy, Religion, and Constitutional Reason.”
“Party Autonomy in Choice of Law”
“Authority, Locality, and the Orders of Choice of Law”
“Prophets in the Public Square.”
“Legislative Lawfinding, Judicial Review, and Double-Coding”
Solicited Committed Projects:
“Corporations,” in ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ECONOMIC THEOLOGY” edited by Stefan
Schwarzkopf.
Commentary on Jury Nullification, in LAW, CULTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES, vol. 16,
edited by Austin Sarat.
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities:
2017
“Corporations.” Workshop of Contributors to the Companion to Economic Theology.
Copenhagen Business School. Copenhagen, Denmark (upcoming).
2017
“Time Interrupted.” Panel on Law and Time. Annual Conference of the Association
for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Stanford Law School.
Stanford, California. (Upcoming.)
2017
“Law's Kingdom; Kingdom's Law.” Invited Speaker, Conference on “Religious
Critiques of Law.” Sponsored by the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion &
Ethics. Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California (upcoming).
2017
Lecture. Katz Jewish Community Center. Cherry Hill, New Jersey (upcoming)
2017
“Shylock's Bond, Surgery in the Palace of Bologna, Roman Sages, Monthly Mikveh, and
other Tales of Shedding Blood.” Presentation at “Torathon,” Beth Hillel-Beth El.
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania (upcoming).
2017
“Call and Response.” D’var Torah (Sermon). Beth Hillel-Beth El Havurah.
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania (upcoming).
2016
“My Name is Great Among the Nations.” D’var Torah (Sermon). Beth Hillel-Beth El
Havurah. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2016
Respondent to Carl-Henric Grenholm, “How the Lutheran Law-Gospel Distinction
Informs the Natural Law/Positive Law Debate in Western Jurisprudence.”
Conference on “Lutheran Interpretations of Contemporary Legal Issues: So Much
Good Fruit." Co-sponsored by the Council on Religion and Law (CORAL),
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, and the Luther Seminary
Reformation Research Program . United Theological Seminary of the Twin
Cities. New Brighton, Minnesota.
2016
Invited Participant, Workshop on Tradition in American Law and Politics. Tradition
Project of the St. John’s University School of Law Center for Law and Religion.
New York City.
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2016
Invited Participant, Panel on Rights and Religious Exemptions. Annual Northeastern
Convening of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. University
of Pennsylvania Law School. Philadelphia.
2016
“The Puzzles of Freedom From Religion.” International Consortium for Law and
Religion Studies Third Conference. Oxford University.
2016
“Religion and State: The American Experiment.” Chautauqua Institution Special
Studies Class. Chautauqua Institution. Chautauqua, New York.
2016
“On Marriage.” Tikkun Leil Shavuot (Shavuot Study Session). Beth Hillel-Beth El.
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2016
“The Hearts of the Parents to their Children; the Hearts of the Children to their
Parents.” D’var Torah (Sermon) for Shabbat Hagadol. Beth Hillel-Beth El.
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2016
“The Bloody Surgeon of Bologna.” Annual Conference of the Association for the Study
of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. University of Connecticut Law School.
Hartford, Connecticut.
2016
“Establishment and Encounter.” Workshop on the Legitimate Scope of Religious
Establishment. Fondazione Studium Generale Marcianum. Venice, Italy.
2016
“My Signs That I Have Done among Them.” D’var Torah (Sermon). Beth Hillel-Beth
El Havurah. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2016
Invited Participant, Panel on the Analytical Jurisprudence of Jewish Law, Association of
American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Jewish Law Section. New York, New
York.
2015
“The United States Supreme Court and American Government.” Holiday Village East
History Club. Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2015
“The Road(s) to Same-Sex Marriage.” Panel on “Same-Sex Marriage and 2015 Political
Campaigns.” Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Rutgers University Camden.
2015
“Religion and State: The American Experiment.” Chautauqua Institution Special
Studies Class. Chautauqua Institution. Chautauqua, New York.
2015
“The Law, History, and Theology of Strict Separationism.” Delaware Valley Americans
United for Separation of Church and State, South Jersey Church & State
Discussion Group. Cherry Hill, New Jersey .
2015
“A Conversation About Same-Sex Marriage . . . and Marriage.” Taman Baca Kesiman
(Reading Garden/Community Library of Kesiman). Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
2015
“Martin Buber and the Existential Encounter of State and Religious Authority.”
“Dialogue in the 21st Century: A Martin Buber Memorial Conference.”
Sponsored by the Manhattan College Center for Ethics; Holocaust, Genocide and
Interfaith Education Center; Office of Mission; Philosophy Department; and
Religious Studies Department. Manhattan College. Riverdale, New York City.
2015
“Scopes of Religious Exemption: A Normative Map.” Bowling Green Workshop in
Applied Ethics and Public Policy on “The Scope of Religious Exemptions.”
Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green,
Ohio.
2015
Moderator, “A Religious Constitution: The Integration of Church and State,” Seventh
Annual Donald C. Clark, Jr. '79 Endowed Law and Religion Lecture. Rutgers
School of Law - Camden.
2015
“Master Metaphors and Double-Coding” (published as “Master Metaphors and
Double-Coding in the Encounters of Religion and State”). Invited Participant.
Conference on “Hosanna-Tabor and/or Employment Division v. Smith?”
Institute for Law and Religion. University of San Diego School of Law. San
Diego, California.
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2015
“Law’s Escape.” Conference on “Wisdom, Law, and Lawyers.” Sponsored by the
Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion & Ethics. Pepperdine University School of
Law, Malibu, California.
2015
“Original Public Meaning in the Land of Now.” Faculty Seminar. Rutgers School of
Law-Camden.
2015
“Real and Imaginary Jews in the American Church-State Experiment.” Presentation at
“Torathon,” Beth Hillel-Beth El. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2014
“Original Public Meaning in the Land of Now.” Fifth Loyola Colloquium on
Constitutional Law. Loyola Law School, Chicago, Illinois.
2014
“Overflowing Love.” Rosh Hashana D’var Torah (Sermon), Merion Tribute House
Service, Merion, Pennsylvania.
2014
“ADR, Religious Tribunals, and the Domestication of Legal Pluralism.” Conference on
“Religion in the Public Square: Alternative Dispute Resolution: Is this the future
of law?” Aspen Center for Social Values and the Jewish Law Association. Aspen,
Colorado.
2014
Participant, Libertas Project Workshop on Religious Liberty. Villanova University
School of Law. Villanova, Pennsylvania.
2014
Paper on “Privacy, Establishment, and Constitutional Reason” and Hot Topics Panel
presentation on “A Typology of Religious Accommodations.” Invited Participant,
Fifth Annual Law and Religion Roundtable, Sponsored by Washington University
School of Law, Program in Church, State, and Society of Notre Dame Law School,
and the University of Alabama School of Law. Washington University School of
Law. Saint Louis, Missouri.
2014
“Jewish Legal Change.” Beth Hillel-Beth El Study and Discussion Group.
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2014
“The Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Cases.” Faculty Supreme Court Lunch Group.
Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2014
“Legal Reason and the Misguided Quest for Reasonableness.” Faculty Workshop,
Rutgers School of Law - Newark. Newark, New Jersey.
2014
“Judaism, Pluralism, and Constitutional Glare.” Invited Participant, Conference on
“People of the Book: Judaism and Constitutional Law.” DePaul College of Law
Center for Jewish Law and Judaic Studies. DePaul College of Law, Chicago.
2014
“Prayer is Serious Business: Reflections on Town of Greece.” Panelist, Sixth Annual
Donald C. Clark, Jr. '79 Symposium on Law and Religion, “Town of Greece and its
Impact on the Establishment Clause.” Rutgers School of Law – Camden.
2014
“Inside and Outside: Jewish Studies in the Secular Legal Academy.” Cambridge
Conference in Modern Jewish Thought, “Jewish Studies as Philosophy: Beyond
Historicism and Sociology?” Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. (Also
respondent to Paul E. Nahme, “Legal Idealization and Normative Historicity”).
2014
“The Law of Love.” Conference on “Love and Law.” Sponsored by the Nootbaar
Institute on Law, Religion & Ethics. Pepperdine University School of Law,
Malibu, California.
2014
“The God Who Drowned the King of Egypt.” D’var Torah (Sermon). Beth Hillel-Beth
El Havurah. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2013
“Jewish Legal Change and the Ironies of Historical Consciousness.” Invited
Participant, Gruss Workshop on “Thinking Legally vs. Thinking Historically.”
Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Program in Jewish
Studies, and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. University
of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2013
Moderator, Debate on Voter ID Laws. Sponsored by the Rutgers-Camden Democratic
Law Students Association, Federalist Society, Black Law Students Association,
and Advocates for Public Interest Law (APIL). Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
2013
“Of Reason and Reasonableness.” Fourth Loyola Colloquium on Constitutional Law.
Loyola Law School, Chicago, Illinois.
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2013
“The Son You Love.” D’var Torah (Sermon). Beth Hillel-Beth El Havurah.
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, available at
http://clrforum.org/2013/10/20/son-you-love/
2013
Moderator, Panel on “Faith and Reproductive Justice.” Conference on “Beyond Roe:
Reproductive Justice in a Changing World.” Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
Camden, New Jersey.
2013
“Endorsement, the Siren Call of Non-Sectarianism, and Town of Greece.” Faculty
Supreme Court Lunch Group. Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
2013
“Endorsement, Legal Reason and the Misguided Quest for Reasonableness.”
International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies Third Conference.
Richmond, Williamsburg, and Charlottesville, Virginia.
2013
“Thou Shalt Not Lie: The Jurisprudence of Jewish Law and the Question of
Homosexual Sex.” Address to Couples Group, Katz Jewish Community Center.
Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
2013
“Kosher Pigs, James Madison, and the Relation Between Jewish Communal Institutions
and Jewish Religion.” Keynote Address, 24th Annual Meeting of the Jewish
Community Voice (Southern New Jersey). Katz Jewish Community Center.
Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
2013
“A Living Menorah – On Light and Leadership.” D’var Torah (Sermon). Beth HillelBeth El Havurah. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2013
“Floor Plans for the House of God.” LimmudPhilly Learningfest. Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
2013
Invited Participant, Panel on “An Inconsistent Justice: The Crossroads of Law, Religion
and Women's Human Rights.” Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association,
Section of International Law. Washington, D.C..
22
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2013
“Robert Cover and Legal Pluralism.” Invited Participant, Panel on Robert Cover and
Religious Legal Theory. Fourth Religious Legal Theory Conference. Touro Law
School. Central Islip, New York.
2013
“Legal Reason and the Misguided Quest for Reasonableness” (and a discussion of select
materials on “Legal Formalism”). Invited Talk to Center for Critical Analysis
Seminar on Formalism. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, New Jersey.
2013
“Halakhah, Morality, and Double Coding.” American Association of Law Schools
Annual Meeting, Jewish Law Section. New Orleans, Louisiana.
2012
“Religion and the Law.” Golda Meir Chapter, Hadassah of Southern New Jersey.
Voorhees, New Jersey.
2012
“Saving Rutgers-Camden” (with Adam Scales, Andrew Shankman, Allan Stein,
Robert F. Williams, and Patrick Nowlan). Shared Governance Conference.
American Association of University Professors. Washington, D.C.
2012
Keynote Address. “Voting Your Faith: What Does it Mean?” Catholic-Jewish Institute
for Understanding of the Catholic-Jewish Commission of Southern New Jersey.
Katz Jewish Community Center. Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
2012
Invited Participant and Panelist on Hot Topics Discussion of “Government Mandates
and Conditions on Funding.” Third Annual Law and Religion Roundtable.
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2012
Invited Participant, Conference on “Forgetting and error in Jewish legal culture.”
Sponsored by Harvard Law School’s Gruss Chair of Talmudic Civil Law.
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2012
Testimony on S. 2063, “New Jersey Medical and Health Education Restructuring Act.”
Higher Education Committee, New Jersey Legislature. Trenton, New Jersey.
2012
“Church and State.” Trinity Presbyterian Church. Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
23
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2012
“In Defense of Kelo.” Sponsored by the Rutgers School of Law - Camden Chapter of
the Federalist Society Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
2012
“Natural, Civil, and Religious: Bridging the Divide over Same-Sex Marriage.” Faculty
Research Symposium. Rutgers University - Camden.
2012
“The Anxiety of Influence – Legal Values and the Life of Faith.” Third Religious Legal
Theory Conference: “The Competing Claims of Law & Religion: Who Should
Influence Whom?” Sponsored by the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion &
Ethics and the Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies. Pepperdine University School
of Law, Malibu, California
2012
Panel Discussion on Alpha Delta Chi v. Reed and the American Religious Dispensation.
Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Chapter of the Federalist Society.
University of Pennsylvania Law School. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2011
Prepared draft for Amicus Brief submitted by Jewish Social Policy Action Network
(JSPAN) to the Untied States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit supporting
constitutional challenge to Section 3 of federal Defense of Marriage Act in Gill v.
Office of Personnel Management and Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United
States Department of Health and Human Services.
2011
“A Critique of Original Public Meaning.” “It’s Only a Constitution. A Debate on
Constitutional Interpretation.” Sponsored by the Rutgers School of Law Camden Chapters of the Federalist Society and the American Constitution
Society. Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
2011
“The Challenge of Change in Jewish Law.” Summer Workshop on Law, Religion &
Culture. University of Colorado Law School. Boulder, Colorado.
2011
“Some Reflections on Jewish Law and its Relation to Secular Law and Morality.” Invited
Lecture. Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Beijing, China.
24
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2011
“Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Challenge of Change in Jewish Law.” International
Symposium on Monotheism and Postmodernism, sponsored by the Diane and
Guilford Glazer Institute of Jewish Studies and the Department of Religious
Studies, Nanjing University and the Department of Cultural and Religious
Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
2011
“The Architecture of Private International Law (Choice of Law).” Invited Lecture.
University of Peking School of Transnational Law. Shenzhen, China.
2011
“Kin(g) of All the Earth: Thoughts on the Metaphor of Kingship in Jewish Thought and
Liturgy.” Tikkun Leil Shavuot (Shavuot Study Session). United Jewish
Congregation of Hong Kong. Hong Kong.
2011
“Hanging by a Thread: A Jurisprudence of Jewish Law,” Introduction and Chapter on
“Jewish Legal Change.” Spring 2011 Tikvah Workshop. Tikvah Center for Law &
Jewish Civilization. New York University Law School. New York, New York.
2011
“Nature, Equality, and Same-Sex Marriage.” Faculty Seminar, Rutgers School of Law Camden.
2010
Invited Presenter, teaching sessions on “The Covenants of Faith and Fate: Of
Subbotniks, Sambatianer, Lemba, and other Non-Jewish Jews” (podcast available
at http://tinyurl.com/dane-limmud), “Marriage: Natural, Civil, and Religious,”
“Stand & Pray: Structure & Struggle in the Amidah,” and “Another Look at the
JFS Case.” 30th Limmud Conference. University of Warwick. Coventry, United
Kingdom.
2010
“The Same-Sex Marriage Debate in Civil Law, and Its Religious Dimensions.” 22
Washington Square North Fellows’ Talk. New York University Law School
Institutes on the Park. New York, New York.
2010
“The Challenge of Change in Jewish Law.” Religious Legal Theory Conference.
St. John’s University School of Law. Queens, New York.
25
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2010
“Notes on a Jurisprudence of Jewish Law.” Fall 2010 Tikvah Workshop. Tikvah Center
for Law & Jewish Civilization. New York University Law School. New York, New
York.
2010
“The Complicated Dynamics of Religious Equality.” Continuing Legal Education
Presentation Sponsored by Religious Observers Affinity Group, Proskauer Rose
LLP. New York, New York.
2010
“Separation of Church and State: Perspectives on the ‘Law of Love, Peace, and
Liberty.’” Renaissance Lecture Series. Manchester, New Jersey.
2010
“Nature, Equality, and Same-Sex Marriage.” First Annual Law and Religion
Roundtable. Brooklyn Law School. Brooklyn, New York.
2010
“Religious Symbols, Religious Culture, and Religious Liberty: The European
Conundrum” and “Chagalls’ Crucifix.” Conference on “Law and Religion.”
Organized by Oxford Society for Law and Religion, Focus on FORB, Strasbourg
Consortium, Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College,
Human Rights Implementation Centre at the University of Bristol, House of St.
Gregory and St. Macrina, Brunel Law School of Oxford Brooks University,
International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies at the University of
Milan, and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham
Young University. Balliol College, Oxford University. Oxford, England.
2010
“Judaizers, Self-Proclaimed Jews, and the Covenants of Faith and Fate.” Tikkun Leil
Shavuot (Shavuot Study Session). Suburban Jewish Community Center – Bnai
Aaron. Havertown, Pennsylvania.
2010
“Law and Religion.” Gratz College, Sylvia and Stanley Leven Continuing Legal
Education Program for Attorneys. Penn Valley, Pennsylvania.
2010
“Karaites, Puritans, Zionists, and Hebraists: The Enduring Lure of the Bible-in-Itself.”
LimmudPhilly Learningfest. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
26
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2010
“How Not to Argue for Same-Sex Marriage.” Jonathan Brewster Bingham Forum,
Liberal Party of the Yale Political Union. Yale University. New Haven,
Connecticut.
2009
“The Natural Law Challenge to Choice of Law,” Conference on Ethics in Public and
Private International Law, Panel on Ethics in Private International Law.
Sponsored by the International Legal Theory Interest Group of the American
Society of International Law, with assistance from Pepperdine University School
of Law and the University of Baltimore School of Law. Tillar House, American
Society of International Law, and Cosmos Club, Washington, DC.
2009
“The American Theology of Church-State Separation.” Panel Discussion on Separation
of Church and State. Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion
and the Rutgers-Camden Chapter of the Federalist Society. Rutgers School of law
- Camden
2009
“Prophets in the Public Square,” Journal of Law and Religion 19th Annual Symposium,
“The Global Economic Crisis, Law and the Religious Traditions,” Panel on
“Regulating Markets through Law and the Religious Traditions.” Hamline
University School of Law. Saint Paul, Minnesota.
2009
Panel Discussion on Same-Sex Marriage and the proposed Respect for Marriage Act of
2009, H.R. 3567. Broadcast on “Larry Kane: Voice of Reason,” Comcast Network
CN8.
2009
“Some General Puzzles of Autonomy and Jurisdiction.” “Religious Autonomy: A
Conference of Experts,” Sponsored by the International Center for Law and
Religion Studies at Brigham Young University and Central European University.
Central European University. Budapest, Hungary.
2009
Organizer and Chair, Panel on “Intersections and Connections with the Legal
Academic Study of Jewish Law.” American Association of Law Schools Annual
Meeting, Jewish Law Section. San Diego, California.
27
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2008
Invited Participant, Scriptural Reasoning Project, under the auspices of the Rabbi Myer
and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society. Creighton
University. Omaha, Nebraska.
2008
Course Planner, Chair, and Speaker on “The Complications of Marriage: Civil and
Religious,” Public Policy Program on “The Intersection of Law, Religion, and
Family.” Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2008
“Nature, Equality, and Same-Sex Marriage.” Conference on “The Family: Searching for
Fairest Love,” Panel on “Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Same-Sex Marriage.”
Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame. Notre
Dame, Indiana.
Available at http://ethicscenter.nd.edu/archives/documents/Dane.pdf
2008
“The Sacred Cluster.” Tikkun Leil Shavuot (Shavuot Study Session). Suburban Jewish
Community Center – Bnai Aaron. Havertown, Pennsylvania.
2008
Invited Participant, Conference on “Free Will, Responsibility, and Coercion in the
Talmud.” Co-Sponsored by the Gruss Chair in Talmudic Civil Law at Harvard
Law School and the Institute of Jewish Law at the Boston University School of
Law. Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2008
“A Holy Secular Institution.” Fourth Biennial Symposium on Religion and Politics,
Panel on “Church and State in the American Setting.” Paul B. Henry Institute,
Calvin College. Grand Rapids, Michigan.
2008
Panelist, Discussion on “Homosexuality Within the Context of Jewish Law,”
co-sponsored by Jewish Law Students Association and Outlaws. Rutgers School
of Law – Camden.
28
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2008
“Take These Words: The Abiding Lure of the Hebrew Bible In-Itself.” Conference on
“The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Intellectual Discourse,” Panel on “The Bible
as a Problem for Contemporary Intellectual Discourse.” Sponsored by the
Yeshiva University Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the Israel Matz Institute for Research in
Jewish Law at the Hebrew University Law School. Cardozo Law School. New
York, New York.
2008
Faculty Member for Case Analysis Workshop on Goodridge v. Department of Public
Health. Second Annual Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the
Constitution, “The Constitution in Our Midst: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.”
National Constitution Center. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2008
“Fragments on Marriage and Christmas.” Conference on Constitutional Law, Religion,
Multiculturalism, and Citizenship, organized by Professor Mark Tushnet.
Harvard Law School. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2008
“A Holy Secular Institution.” Faculty Seminar. University of Western Ontario Faculty
of Law. London, Ontario.
2007
“Flags in Context: A Discussion of Design, Genre, and Aesthetics.” North American
Vexillological Association. 41st Annual Meeting. Glastonbury, Connecticut.
(Winner of the Captain William Driver Award for the best presentation made at
the meeting.)
20072008
Invited Participant, Legal Pluralism Reading Group, Sponsored by the
Program in Jewish Law & Interdisciplinary Studies, Cardozo School of Law, New
York City.
2007
“For the Sin.” Yom Kippur D’var Torah (Sermon), Merion Tribute House Service,
Merion, Pennsylvania.
2007
“Natural, Civil, and Religious Marriage: A Study in Three Traditions.” Tikkun Leil
Shavuot (Shavuot Study Session). Suburban Jewish Community Center – Bnai
Aaron. Havertown, Pennsylvania.
29
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2007
“Some Thoughts on the Supreme Court, and Recollections of a Clerkship.” Talk to
Twelfth Grade Accelerated Class on Government and Constitutional Law.
Eastern Regional High School, Voorhees, New Jersey.
2007
“A Holy Secular Institution: Religion and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate.” Faculty
Seminar. Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
2007
“Greeks, Christians, and Jews Comparing Notes on Sexuality: A Story of Text, Morality,
Nature, Theology, Covenant, ... and Shrimp.” Suburban Jewish Community
Center – Bnai Aaron. Havertown, Pennsylvania.
2006
“The Paradoxes of Law, Morality, and Interpretation in the Halakhic Imagination.” The
Third International Conference on the Philosophy of Halakhah, “Halakhah and
Ideology.” Co-Sponsored by the Department of Jewish Thought of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Jerusalem, Israel.
2006
Invited participant, Annual Conference of the Program on Philanthropy and Law, New
York University Law School, on “Serving Multiple Masters: Jurisdictional and
Choice-of-Law Problems Confronting Nonprofit Organizations.”
2006
“Separation of Church and State.” Jewish Community Center of Middlesex County.
Edison, New Jersey.
2006
“Declaratory Statutes.” Oxford Round Table, Program on “The Influence of Sir
William Blackstone on American Education.” Held at Pembroke College,
University of Oxford. Oxford, England. (Also respondent to Gary D. Brooks, “A
Conversation with Sir William Blackstone through the Eyes of Contemporary
Educational Leaders.”)
2006
“Stand and Pray: Structure and Struggle in the Amidah.” Tikkun Leil Shavuot (Shavuot
Study Session). Suburban Jewish Community Center – Bnai Aaron. Havertown,
Pennsylvania.
2006
Panel Discussion on “Religion in American Policy – Are We Crossing the Line?”
Sponsored by the Southwest New Jersey Council of the Anti-Defamation League.
Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
30
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2006
“Marriage and the Religious-Secular Encounter.” Presentation at “Torathon,” Beth
Hillel-Beth El. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2006
“A Wholly Secular Institution? The Church and the Debate on Same-Sex Marriage.”
Annual Consultation of the Association of Conference Attorneys of the United
Church of Christ. Cleveland, Ohio.
2006
Invited Participant, Ronald Dworkin Reading Group, Sponsored by the Program in
Jewish Law & Interdisciplinary Studies, Cardozo School of Law, New York City.
2005
“What is Here a Right Towards Men Is a Duty Towards the Creator” Lead
Presentation, Workshop on “Exploring the Intersections of Religion, Culture, and
the Rule of Law” organized by the Minority Concerns Unit of the Administrative
Office of the New Jersey Courts. State of New Jersey Judicial College, Presented
by the Administrative Office of the New Jersey Courts and the New Jersey
Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Education. Teaneck, New Jersey.
2005
“Ritual Confession and Moral Education” Ard-Wood Friday Night Minyan.
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2005
“New Orleans and Jerusalem: Sacred Energy, Sacred Space, and the Scattering of the
Shells.” D’var Torah. Suburban Jewish Community Center – Bnai Aaron.
Havertown, Pennsylvania.
2005
“Christmas.” Oxford Round Table, Program on Religion, Education, and the Role of
Government. Held at Oriel College, University of Oxford. Oxford, England.
2005
“‘You Shall Do That Which Is Right and Good’: The Tensions of Law and Morality in
Halakhic Life.” Tikkun Leil Shavuot (Shavuot Study Session). Suburban Jewish
Community Center – Bnai Aaron. Havertown, Pennsylvania.
2005
Invited Participant, Conference on the Relationship of Halakhah and Aggadah.
Co-Sponsored by the Gruss Chair in Talmudic Civil Law at Harvard Law School
and the Program in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies of the Cardozo
School of Law. Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2005
“The Legal, the Moral, and the Theological: Reflections on a Responsum by Rabbi
Menashe Klein.” Ard-Wood Sabbath Group, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2005
“Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf: Transcender of Boundaries, Transformer of Lives.”
Comments on the Occasion of a Commemorative Weekend in Honor of
Arnold Jacob Wolf, former Jewish Chaplain at Yale University.
Joseph Slifka Center. Yale University.
2004
“‘Omalous’ Autonomy.” Lead Paper on “Church Autonomy and the Free Exercise of
Religion,” Conference on “Church Autonomy” Sponsored by The International
Center for Law and Religion Studies and The J. Reuben Clark Law School,
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
2004
Paper on Jewish Law and Responses to Terrorism and Warfare. American Association
of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Jewish Law Section. Atlanta, Georgia.
2003
Commentator and Participant. Fourth Conference of the European-American Law and
Religion Consortium: The Permissible Scope of Legal Limitations on Freedom of
Religion or Belief: A Comparative Perspective. Dobogókõ, Hungary.
2003
Lecture on “Slavery, Race, and the Story of Dred Scott” to undergraduate Sociology
class on “Race and Ethnicity.” Rutgers-Camden College of Arts and Sciences.
2003
“Shabbat in Prayer.” D’var Torah (Sermon), Beth Hillel-Beth El Havurah.
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2002
“The Genre Barrier and the Place of Intent.” “Mediating Law: Theory. Production.
Culture,” the 11th International Conference of the Law and Literature
Association of Australia, held in conjunction with the Association for the Study of
Law, Culture and the Humanities (USA). University of Melbourne Law School.
Melbourne, Australia.
2002
“The Genre Barrier and the Place of Intent.” Faculty Seminar. Rutgers School of Law Camden.
32
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2002
“Avinu Malkeinu, Kin(g) of all the Earth.” Yom Kippur D’var Torah (Sermon), Merion
Tribute House Service, Merion, Pennsylvania.
2002
“Issues in the Structure of the Halakhah.” Adult Learning Mini-Course.
Beth Hillel-Beth El. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2001
Policy Research Seminar on Ethnocultural, Racial, Religious and Linguistic Diversity
and Identity. Co-Sponsored by the Association for Canadian Studies, the
Multiculturalism Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the
Metropolis Project Team of Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
2001
“Bameh Madlikin.” Ard-Wood Friday Night Minyan. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
2001
“Before and After: The Soul’s Journey on Yom Kippur.” High Holiday Kol Nidre D’var
Torah (Sermon), Merion Tribute House Service, Merion, Pennsylvania.
2001
“Pluralism, Double Coding, and the Possibilities of Legal Rhetoric.” 20th World
Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law & Social
Philosophy. Vrije Universiteit (Free University), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
(Also chaired separate session on “Legal Reasoning and Plurality of Values.”)
2001
“The Paradoxes of Law, Morality, and Interpretation in the Halakhic Imagination.”
Fellows’ Seminar. Program on “Secularism.” Center for the Critical Analysis of
Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
2001
Three Papers on Legal Pluralism. Faculty Seminar. Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
2001
“This Month.” D’var Torah (Sermon), Beth Hillel-Beth El Havurah. Wynnewood,
Pennsylvania.
2000
Respondent to paper by Samira Haj, “Islamic Rationality and Reform.”
Fellows’ Seminar. Program on “Secularism.” Center for the Critical Analysis of
Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
33
Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
2000
“Miracles, Truth, and Constructive Postmodernism: Reflections on the Debate Between
David Hume and George Campbell.” Second International Reid Symposium:
Philosophy in Scotland, Then and Now. University of Aberdeen. Aberdeen,
Scotland.
2000
“The Intersecting Worlds of Religious and Secular Marriage.” Current Legal Issues
Colloquium on Law and Religion. Faculty of Law, University College London.
London, England (version of paper later published as The Intersecting Worlds of
Religious and Secular Marriage).
2000
“Secular Law Encounters Jewish Marriage and Divorce: A Short Exploration.”
Presentation at “Torathon,” Beth Hillel-Beth El. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
1999
Panel Discussion on United States v. Dickerson. Faculty Seminar. Rutgers School of
Law - Camden.
1999
Presentation and Discussion on Fostering Faculty Scholarship and Intellectual
Community. University of Cincinnati College of Law. Cincinnati, Ohio.
1999
“The Varieties of Religious Autonomy.” Second Conference of the
European-American Law and Religion Consortium: Church Autonomy and
Religious Liberty. University of Trier. Trier, Germany.
1999
“Jewish Legal Commitment.” Hassell Institute Lecture and Discussion Series, Main
Line Reform Temple Beth Elohim. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
1999
“Sacrifice, Progress, and the Messiah.” D’var Torah (Sermon), Beth Hillel-Beth El
Havurah. Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
1998
Organizer, Chair, and Presenter (on “Religion in the Law of the United States and the
United Kingdom”), Program on “Religious Freedom and Other Civil Liberties: A
Comparison Between the United States and Great Britain.” Co-Sponsored by
Rutgers School of Law - Camden, Rutgers School of Law, Newark, Seton Hall Law
School, and the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. New Jersey
State Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting. London, United Kingdom.
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
1998
“Hanging By A Thread.” D’var Torah (Sermon), Beth Hillel-Beth El Havurah.
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
1998
Invited participant, “Deliberation on Exile and Assimilation.” Joseph Slifka Center.
Yale University.
1998
Panelist, “Community Awareness Program” on “Hate on the Internet.” Sponsored by
the Jewish Community Relations Council of Southern New Jersey and the
Anti-Defamation League of New Jersey. Katz Jewish Community Center, Cherry
Hill, New Jersey.
1997
Invited Remarks, Memorial Proceeding before the New Jersey Supreme Court for the
Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr. Trenton.
1997
“James Madison, The Separation of Church and State, and the Cost of a Perelman Day
School Education.” Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School Family
Network “Muse ‘N Munch.” Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
1997
Respondent to Paper by Edward B. Foley, and member of working group on “Religious
Perspectives on the Rule of Law.” “The Relevance of Religion to a Lawyer’s
Work: An Interfaith Conference,” sponsored by Section of Litigation of the
American Bar Association, Auburn Theological Seminary, Louis Finkelstein
Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary, National Council of Juvenile and
Family Court Judges, and Stein Institute of Law and Ethics of the Fordham
University School of Law. New York City.
1997
“The Encounter of Jewish and Secular Law: A Short Exploration.” Presentation at
“Torathon,” Beth Hillel-Beth El, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
1997
Guest speaker on legal pluralism and aboriginal rights. First-Year “Perspectives”
Program on “Race and Cultural Difference,” session on “Legal Pluralism as
Mutual Recognition of Sovereignty.” University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
1996
Invited participant and session leader, 1996 International Conference on “The
Interpretive Traditions of Halakhah and American Law.” Center for
Contemporary Halakhah in the Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies of the
Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem.
1996
“The Paradoxes of Law, Morality, and Interpretation in the Halakhic Imagination.”
Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law Faculty Seminar. Ramat Gan, Israel.
1996
Respondent to Jack and Lewis Rudin Lectures by Ronald M. Dworkin, “Politics,
Commitment, and Faith.” Auburn Theological Seminary at Union Theological
Seminary, New York City.
1996
Panel on Jewish Law, Conference on “New Approaches to Comparative and Foreign
Law.” University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City.
1996
High Holiday Yom Kippur D’var Torah (Sermon), Merion Tribute House Service,
Merion, Pennsylvania.
1996
“Sovereign Dignity and Glorious Chaos: A Comment on the Interjurisdictional
Implications of the Entire Controversy Doctrine.” Symposium on the
“Entire Controversy Doctrine,” sponsored by the Rutgers School of Law Camden and the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Rutgers
School of Law - Camden.
1994
“Revelation and Law.” Presentation to Leaders Training Fellowship,
Beth Hillel-Beth El, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
1994
“The Corporation Sole and the Encounter of Law and Church.” Faculty Seminar.
Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
1994
High Holiday Rosh Hashanah D’var Torah (Sermon), Merion Tribute House Service,
Merion, Pennsylvania.
1994
Panel on the Gulf War. Human Rights Group, Rutgers School of Law - Camden.
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
1993
Invited participant, Fifth Annual Conference of the Program on Philanthropy and Law,
New York University Law School.
1992
“The Yoke of Heaven, The Question of Sinai, and the Life of Law.” Hamline University
Law School Fifth Annual Symposium on Law, Religion, and Ethics. Saint Paul,
Minnesota.
1992
Testimony on Bill 5019, a proposed state-level Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Judiciary Committee, Connecticut General Assembly. Hartford, Connecticut.
Available at http://tinyurl.com/danetest2
1992
“Church and State Meet ‘The New Institutionalism’: Thoughts on ‘Isomorphism’.”
Project on Religious Institutions Seminar, Fourth Session, Washington, D.C.
1992
“Jurisdictional Time Limits, Jurisdictionality, and the Legal Imagination.” Rutgers
School of Law - Camden.
1991
“The Corporation Sole and the Encounter of Law and Church.” Project on Religious
Institutions Seminar, First Session, New Haven, Connecticut.
1991
Testimony on House Bill 6699, a proposed state-level Religious Freedom Restoration
Act. Judiciary Committee, Connecticut General Assembly. Hartford,
Connecticut. Available at http://tinyurl.com/danetest1991
1991
“Jurisdictional Time Limits, Jurisdictionality, and the Legal Imagination.” Yale Law
School Faculty Workshop.
1990
“Legislative Lawfinding.” Columbia Law School Legal Theory Workshop.
1990
“Legislative Lawfinding.” Yale Law School Faculty Workshop.
1989
“How Subcommunities and the State Recognize One Another: The American Indian
Example.” Cardozo School of Law Symposium on Religious Law and Legal
Pluralism (version of paper later published as Maps of Sovereignty: A Meditation).
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Major Talks, Presentations, and Scholarly Activities (cont.):
1988
“Act and Intent in Jewish Criminal Law.” Mishnah Study Group, Board of Jewish
Education, New Haven, Connecticut
1988
Comments on talk by Father Richard P. McBrien, University of Notre Dame.
Symposium on Religion and Politics sponsored by Thomas More House, New
Haven, Connecticut.
1988
Memorandum on church-state implications of proposed Act for Better Child Care.
Labor and Human Relations Committee, United States Senate.
1986
“Vested Rights, Vestedness, and Choice of Law.” Yale Law School Faculty Workshop.
1986
“Polygamy on Trial.” Mormon Discussion Group, New Haven, Connecticut
1986
“A Legal Analysis of the Jurisdiction and Choice of Law Provisions of the Gorton
Amendment No. 1951 to S.1999.” Report to the United States Senate Committee
on Commerce, Science and Transportation (with Professor George L. Priest, Yale
Law School)
1985
“The American Constitutional Perspective: Separate Spheres” and “The American
Constitutional Perspective: Heresy and Belief.” Yale Alumni College on “Religion
and Politics: From Constantine to Reagan.” New Haven, Connecticut and Pebble
Beach, California.
Selected University and Law School Service:
Rutgers University:
Rutgers-Camden Campus Faculty Council, 2012-Present
Chair, 2015-Present
Rutgers University Senate
At-Large Senator from Rutgers University-Camden, 2016-Present
Selected University and Law School Service (cont.):
Advisory Committee to the President of the University, 1996-2007
Ad Hoc Committee on Committee on Commencement Speakers and Honorary
Degrees, 2016
Rutgers Law School (previously Rutgers School of Law - Camden):
Director of Faculty Development, 1999-2003
Committee on Non-JD Programs
Chair, 2014-2015
Building Committee, 2002-present.
Chair, 2013-Present
Chair, Strategic Planning Committee, 2000-03
Chair, Prizes and Awards Committee, 1999-2001
Speakers and Lectures Committee, 1999-2001, 2009, 2013
Chair, 1999.
Chair, Committee to Revise the Honor Code, 1993
Joint Rutgers Law Working Group on Faculty Governance, 2015
Rutgers Law Merger Planning Committee, 2013-14
ABA/AALS Self-Study Committee, 2013-14
Appointments Committee, 1995-97, 2008-2010, 2011-13, 2015-16
Dean’s Search Committee, 1997-98
Faculty Advisor, Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, 1999-2010, 2011-present
Clinical Tenure and Promotions Committee, 2016-Present
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Selected University and Law School Service (cont.):
Course Committee, 2003-04, 2004-05
Technology Committee, 2003-04
House Committee, 1998, 1999-2000
Committee on Scholastic Standing, 1996
Committee on Diversity Concerns, 1994-96
Committee on Academic Petitions, 1994-95
Yale Law School:
Dean’s Advisory Committee
Chair, Library Committee
Graduate Program Committee
Special Visitors Committee
Yale Hillel Foundation Board of Directors
Acting President, 1986-87
Vice President, 1985-90
Executive Committee, 1987-1992
Selected Scholarly and Professional Service:
Jewish Social Policy Action Network (JSPAN)
Church-State Policy Center, Member, 2010-Present
Council on Religion and Law (CORAL)
Board Member, 2014-Present
Secretary and Executive Committee Member, 2014-Present
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Selected Scholarly and Professional Service (cont.):
Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at Saint Joseph’s University.
Member of the Advisory Board of Directors, 2015-Present
JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION at Hamline University School of Law (to 2013) and Center for
the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University (since 2013)
Co-Book Review Editor, 2011-12
Member, International Advisory Board, 2013-Present
Reviewer / Referee:
LAW & PHILOSOPHY
OSGOODE HALL LAW JOURNAL
JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION
STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY
JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY
GLOBAL CHANGE, PEACE, & SECURITY
SUNY PRESS
YALE LAW JOURNAL
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Selected Scholarly and Professional Service (cont.):
Association of American Law Schools
Section on Jewish Law
Chair, 2008-09
Chair-Elect, 2007-08
Secretary, 2006-07
Treasurer, 2005-06
Executive Committee Member, 2005-Present
House of Representatives, Alternative Representative, 2009
North American Vexillological Association
Devereaux Cannon Grant Committee (considering applications for research grants),
2009-Present
Scientific Committee for the 24th International Congress of Vexillology in Alexandria,
Virginia, 2010-12
Member, Editorial Committee for RAVEN: A JOURNAL OF VEXILLOLOGY, 2012-Present
University of Pennsylvania Mock Trial
Volunteer Judge:
Ninth Annual Quaker Classic Tournament (college teams), 2011
Benjamin Franklin Invitational Tournament (high school teams), 2012
Eleventh Annual Quaker Classic Tournament (college teams), 2013
Selected Community and Other Service:
Yale Political Union
Alumni Board, Member, 2008-Present
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Selected Community and other Service (cont.):
The Philadelphia Jewish Voice
Board of Directors, 2005-Present
Risk Management Committee, 2005-2006
Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland
Board of Directors, 2016-Present
Yale Alumni Schools Committee
Interviewing students for admission to Yale College, periodically 1988-Present
Telluride Association
Interviewing applicants to summer programs for high school students, periodically
2010-Present
Suburban Jewish Community Center – Bnai Aaron
Religious Committee, 2004-2006
Religious Services Subcommittee, 2004-2005
Planning Committee, 2009-2011
Beth Hillel-Beth El Havurah
“Imahot Committee” (established to consider certain gender-sensitive liturgical
changes), 1996.
Early Childhood Programs, Germantown Jewish Centre
Parents’ Committee, 1992-93
Egalitarian Minyan at Yale
Steering Committee, 1980's
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