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).