Brandon Paradise is Associate Professor of Law and Professor Dallas Willard Scholar at Rutgers Law School. He has published leading articles on the intersection of race, law and religion and is a widely sought-after speaker on both issues of religious liberty and racial equality. He studied law at Yale Law School and church history at Union Theological Seminary. 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 at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. He helps to direct the HNI's working group, Sociality and the Self.