John Witte, Jr., J.D. (Harvard), is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Ethics, Director of the Law and Religion Program, and Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion at Emory University. A specialist in legal history, marriage, and religious liberty, he has published 100 professional articles, and 12 books, including Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective, 2 vols. (1996); From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition (1997); Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia (1999); Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (2000); and Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (2002). His writings have appeared in German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Romanian translations.

Professor Witte has lectured and convened major conferences throughout North America, Western Europe, Israel, and South Africa. He has been selected seven times by the Emory law students as the Most Outstanding Professor and has won six other major awards for his teaching and research.