Brandon Paradise
Associate Professor of Law, and Professor Dallas Willard Scholar
Biography
Professor Paradise is Associate Professor of Law and Professor Dallas Willard Scholar at Rutgers Law School. He is a leading scholar of the intersection of race, law and Christianity and is a widely sought-after speaker on issues of religious liberty and racial equality. He studied law at Yale Law School, church history at Union Theological Seminary and economics and philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is a McDonald Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, a Nootbar Fellow at Pepperdine Caruso Law School, and a board member of the Institute for Studies in Eastern Christianity housed at Union Theological Seminary. He is also a research fellow at the Human Network Initiative, an interdisciplinary research center housed in the Neurology Department of Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Rutgers Law School Professor of the Year award.
Professor Paradise’s forthcoming publications include Bearing Witness to Truth: Christianity at the Crossroads of Race and Law in Faith in Law, Law in Faith: Reflecting and Building on the Work of John Witte, Jr (eds. Rafael Domingo, Gary S. Hauk, and Timothy P. Jackson, Brill, forthcoming 2024); Liberalism and Orthodoxy: A Search for Mutual Apprehension, 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1657 (2023) (with Sergey Trostyanskiy); Confronting the Truth: The Necessity of Love for Justice, 37 Journal of Law and Religion 230 (2022); Agape and Law in Byzantium in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Sacred Arts (ed. J.A. McGuckin, Sophia Institute Studies in Orthodox Theology vol. 10, Theotokos Press (Dec. 2016)); and How Critical Race Theory Marginalizes the African-American Christian Tradition, 20 Mich. J. Race & L. 117 (2014).
Publications
Bearing Witness to Truth: Christianity at the Crossroads of Race and Law (book chapter, Faith in Law, Law in Faith: Reflecting and Building on the Work of John Witte, Jr (eds. Rafael Domingo, Gary S. Hauk, and Timothy P. Jackson, Brill, forthcoming March 2024)
Liberalism and Orthodoxy: A Search for Mutual Apprehension, 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1657 (2023) (with Sergey Trostyanskiy)
Confronting the Truth: The Necessity of Love for Justice, 37 Journal of Law and Religion 230 (2022) (the essay examines the interplay between law, Christianity, and oppression in the thought of James Baldwin).
Qualified Immunity and Natural Law, Canopy Forum/ Center for the Study of Law and Religion, August 17, 2020.
Redemption and Justice in the Guyger Case, Canopy Forum/ Center for the Study of Law and Religion, March 19, 2020.
Agape and Law in Byzantium in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Sacred Arts (ed. J.A. McGuckin, Sophia Institute Studies in Orthodox Theology vol. 10, Theotokos Press (Dec. 2016).
How Critical Race Theory Marginalizes the African-American Christian Tradition, 20 Mich. J. Race & L. 117 (2014)
Racially Transcendent Diversity, 50 University of Louisville Law Review 415 (2012) (cited, Brief for the State of California as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, (August, 13, 2012) (No.11-345), Supreme Court of the United States, 2012 WL 3540401*13; Brief for the State of California as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, (October 29, 2015) (No. 14-981), SupremeCourt of the United States, 2015 WL 6690040)
Militant Covering, 33 Wash. U. J.L. Pol'y 161 (2010)
Introduction, Affirmative Action in Higher Education: An Early Sunset?, 13 Rutgers Race & L. Rev. 1-S (2012)
Pursuing the Diversity Ideal, The Newsletter of the DRI Diversity Committee, 4 Diversity Insider 1 (2012)
Litigation & Stock Option Backdating: Cases, Claims and Battlefield Issues (ABA 2007 Litigation Section
Annual Conference) (with Salvatore J. Graziano, Michael C. Kelley, Hannah E. Greenwald and Laura H. Gundersheim)