John Witte Jr. is a Canadian-American academic. He is a Robert W. Woodruff University Professor 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 there.
He is series editor of the Emory University Studies in Law and Religion by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, and general editor of the Law and Christianity Series published by Cambridge University Press.
Education
Witte received a BA from Calvin College in 1982, and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1985.
Books
As author: Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Sex, Marriage and Family in John Calvin’s Geneva I: Courtship, Engagement and Marriage (with Robert M. Kingdon) (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005) God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006) The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Cambridge University Press, 2007) The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, 2009) Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction (with Frank Alexander) (Cambridge University Press, 2010) No Establishment of Religion: America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty (with T. Jeremy Gunn) Oxford University Press, 2012) Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction (with M. Christian Green) (Oxford University Press, 2012) From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition, 2nd ed. (Westminster John Knox Press, 2012) The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy (Cambridge University Press, 2015) Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties (Cambridge University Press, 2019) Faith, Freedom, and Family: New Studies in Law and Religion (Mohr Siebeck, 2021) (edited by Norman Doe and Gary S. Hauk) The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 5th ed. (with Joel A. Nichols and Richard W. Garnett) (Oxford University Press, 2022) In Defense of the Marital Family (Brill, 2023) Raíces protestantes del Derecho (Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2023)
As editor: Herman Dooyeweerd, A Christian Theory of Social Institutions (Magnus Verbrugge, trans.) (Paideia Press, 1986) Christianity and Democracy in Global Context (Westview Press, 1993) Harold J. Berman, Law and Language: Effective Symbols of Community (Cambridge University Press, 2013)