Nootbaar Institute Fellows
The Nootbaar Fellows Program at Pepperdine Caruso Law brings together a community of distinguished scholars in the law and religion field. Through regular workshops and conferences, Nootbaar fellows share innovative research and academic projects with the ultimate goal of deepening knowledge and wisdom in the field of law and religion. Annually, we hold a Nootbaar Fellows Conference here in Malibu. This conference is scheduled to expand over the next three academic years thanks to a generous donation pledge from Founders First.
Meet the Fellows
Netta Barak-Corren
Associate Professor of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marc DeGirolami
Henry Newman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Law and the Human Person, St. John's University School of Law
Frederick Gedicks
Guy Anderson Chair & Professor of Law, Brigham Young University Law School
Nicholas Miller
Professor of Law and Religion at Washington Adventist University
James Nelson
Vinson & Elkins Professor at the University of Houston Law Center
Laura Portuondo
Fellow with the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School
Zalman Rothschild
Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and Fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center
Faraz Sanei
Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
Chagai Schlesinger
Postdoctural Visiting Scholar, New York Univeristy Law School
Micah Schwartzman
Hard Cross Dillard Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Amy Sepinwall
Associate Professor, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Fellows Conference
Favoritism, Coercion and the Establishment Clause
Christopher Lund
On Compelling Interests and the Costs of Freedom
Netta Barak-Corren
The Myth of Second-Class Free Exercise
Frederick Gedicks
Mysterizing Religion
Marc DeGirolami
Effecting Free Exercise and Equal Protection
Laura Portuondo
Sacred Easements
Pat Reidy
Established Churches and American Church Autonomy
Lael Weinberger
Breaking Down Bigotry
Amy Sepinwall
Religious Nondelegation
Jessie Hill
The Future of Schools and the First Amendment
Alan Brownstein