Speakers

Michael J. Broyde is a professor of law at Emory University School of Law, director of the SJD Program, and Berman Projects Director at Emory’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is also a core faculty member at the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies.

His work focuses on law and religion, Jewish law and ethics, family law, legal ethics, and comparative religious law. A Senior Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at Stanford Law, he has authored over a dozen books and many articles. Ordained as a rabbi (yoreh yoreh ve-yadin yadin) by Yeshiva University, he served as a dayan and director of the Beth Din of America.

He was the founding rabbi of Young Israel of Atlanta and a founder of the Atlanta Torah MiTzion Kollel. Broyde has served on many boards, including over 15 years as chair of the medical ethics committee of Weinstein Hospice in Atlanta.

Topic of the lectures:
1. Innovation in Jewish law
2. The return of Jews to Judaism – is a new conversion necessary?