September 30, 2004
Professor Michael J. Perry will present a lecture to the law
school community On October 13, 2004 entitled “Capital Punishment
as a Human Rights Issue.”
Michael J. Perry is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, the
highest honor Emory can bestow on a faculty member. Perry is one of
the nation's leading authorities on the relationship of morality to
law. He is the author of nine books, published by Oxford,
Cambridge and Yale university presses, and has written on a broad
range of the most contentious issues of American law and
politics. His most recent book, "Under God? Religious Faith
and Liberal Democracy," argues that political reliance on religious
faith violates neither the Constitution's establishment clause nor
the morality of liberal democracy. The book also addresses three
issues at the center of American public life: school vouchers,
same-sex marriage and abortion.
Prior to joining the law faculty at Emory, Perry held the
University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University,
and was the Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law at Northwestern
University from 1990-1997. He also has taught as a visiting
professor and guest scholar at Yale Law School, the University Of
Tokyo School Of Law, and at Trinity College (Dublin) School of
Law.