Michael Broyde
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates = , burial_place = , burial_coordinates = , monuments = , nationality = , other_names = , citizenship = United States , education =
Yeshiva University Yeshiva University is a Private university, private Modern Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City.
( BA)
New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
( JD) , occupation = , years_active = , era = , employer = Emory University School of Law , organization = , agent = , known_for = , notable_works = , style = , height = , television = , title = Professor of law and the Academic Director of the Law and Religion Program , term = , predecessor = , successor = , party = , movement = , opponents = , boards = , criminal_charge = , criminal_penalty = , criminal_status = , partner = , parents = , mother = , father = , relatives = , family = , callsign = , awards = , website = , module = , module2 = , module3 = , module4 = , module5 = , module6 = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = Michael Jay Broyde (born May 12, 1964) is an American
legal scholar Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the a ...
. He is a professor of law and the academic director of the Law and Religion Program at
Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...
. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at the university. His primary areas of interest are law and religion, Jewish law and
Jewish ethics Jewish ethics are the ethics of the Jewish religion or the Jewish people. A type of normative ethics, Jewish ethics may involve issues in Jewish law as well as non-legal issues, and may involve the convergence of Judaism and the Western phil ...
, and comparative
religious law Religious law includes ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions. Examples of religiously derived legal codes include Christian canon law (applicable within a wider theological conception in the church, but in modern times distin ...
. Broyde has published 200 articles on various aspects of law and religion and Jewish law, and a number of articles in the area of federal courts.


Personal

Broyde is married to lawyer Channah S. Broyde, and has four children: Joshua, Aaron, Rachel, and Deborah. Two of his children live in
Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
. He lives in Toco Hills, Georgia.


Biography

Broyde holds a
Juris Doctor A Juris Doctor, Doctor of Jurisprudence, or Doctor of Law (JD) is a graduate-entry professional degree that primarily prepares individuals to practice law. In the United States and the Philippines, it is the only qualifying law degree. Other j ...
from New York University Law School, from which he graduated in 1988. He clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 1989 he was an associate at the law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell. He received his B.A. in 1984 and was
ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...
as a
rabbi A rabbi (; ) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as ''semikha''—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of t ...
in 1991 by
Yeshiva University Yeshiva University is a Private university, private Modern Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City.
, and was a member ( dayan) of the Beth Din of America. Broyde was the first rabbi of th
Young Israel of Toco Hills
in
Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...
. He is a professor of law and the academic director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University School of Law. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. Broyde was a member of the Rabbinical Council of America, and resigned from it in February 2014. During the 2017–2018 academic year, he was a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw Law School in Poland and in the Interdisciplinary College of Law in Herzliya, Israel. In 2018, Broyde won a Fulbright scholarship to study religious
arbitration Arbitration is a formal method of dispute resolution involving a third party neutral who makes a binding decision. The third party neutral (the 'arbitrator', 'arbiter' or 'arbitral tribunal') renders the decision in the form of an 'arbitrati ...
. During 2018–2019, Broyde was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...
, where he is working on manuscripts on religious arbitration, kidney transplants and vouchers, Jewish law and modesty, and a modern explication of the
Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis (from Greek language, Greek ; ; ) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its incipit, first word, (In the beginning (phrase), 'In the beginning'). Genesis purpor ...
, while translating ''A Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts'' into Hebrew.


Publications

Broyde has written books and delivered speeches on Jewish law, Mishpat Ivri, and
Jewish ethics Jewish ethics are the ethics of the Jewish religion or the Jewish people. A type of normative ethics, Jewish ethics may involve issues in Jewish law as well as non-legal issues, and may involve the convergence of Judaism and the Western phil ...
. His primary areas of interest are law and religion, Jewish law and
Jewish ethics Jewish ethics are the ethics of the Jewish religion or the Jewish people. A type of normative ethics, Jewish ethics may involve issues in Jewish law as well as non-legal issues, and may involve the convergence of Judaism and the Western phil ...
, and comparative
religious law Religious law includes ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions. Examples of religiously derived legal codes include Christian canon law (applicable within a wider theological conception in the church, but in modern times distin ...
. Broyde has written 200 articles and book chapters on various aspects of law and religion and Jewish law, and a number of articles in the area of federal courts. Broyde has published on topics ranging from issues of contemporary relevance to more academic matters. He published two books in 2017. One of the works
''A Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts''
is a compendium on Jewish law as is relates to converts. His other recently published book, ''Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinic Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West'', explores the rise of this phenomenon in recent years.


Controversy

In April 2013, The Jewish Channel reported that Broyde had created a pseudonym with which he joined online the International Rabbinic Fellowship, and commented on his own posts on Jewish blogs, and that he had published articles in Jewish periodicals under the pseudonym. It further alleged that he created another pseudonym, which he used to publish testimonies of deceased rabbis agreeing with his own view on women's hair covering. Broyde admitted to and issued an apology regarding the former allegations, but denied the latter allegation. Emory University, in an investigation into Broyde's alleged actions, "did not find evidence to substantiate any conduct beyond that which Professor Broyde acknowledged. Specifically, the Committee did not find evidence to substantiate" the latter allegation. Furthermore, the committee found that "the conduct did not violate Emory policies that govern allegations of research misconduct".


Selected works

*Editor, ''Marriage, Sex, and Family in Judaism'' (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005). *''Marriage, Divorce and the Abandoned Wife in Jewish Law: A Conceptual Approach to the Agunah Problems in America''. (Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav, 2001). *"Honesty and Analysis: A Response to Passionate Critics," ''Edah Journal'' 5(1):1–42 (Summer 2005), found online at www.edah.org, this article deals with the abandoned wife ('' agunah''). * ''Marriage,
Divorce Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganising of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the M ...
and the Abandoned Wife in Jewish Law: A Conceptual Understanding of the Agunah Problems in America'' *"Jewish Law and the Abandonment of Marriage: Diverse Models of Sexuality and Reproduction in the Jewish View and the Return to Monogamy in the Modern Era," in Marriage, Sex, and Family in Judaism (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005), 88–115. *With Jonathan Reiss. "The Ketubah in America: Its Value in Dollars, its Significance in Halacha and its Enforceability in American Law," ''The Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society'' 47:101–124 (2004). (' Ketubah' is a marriage contract) *"קידושי טעות בזמנינו" (lit. "Mistaken Marriage in our Time"), Tehumin 22:231–242 (2003). *"The 1992 New York Get Law: An Exchange," ''Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought'' 31(3):23–41 (1997). (A '' get'' is a divorce document.) *"Can There be Solutions to the Agunah Problem", ''JOFA Journal'' 5(4):8–9 (Summer 2005). *Review of "Between Civil and Religious Law: The Plight of the Agunah in American Society by Irving Breitowitz," in ''AALS Jewish Law Section Newsletter'', May 1993, pp. 2–4. *"Religious Freedom in the Domain of Family Law" (lecture and faculty colloquium) and "The Jewish Religion and Human Rights Politics in the Near East," University of Tübingen, Germany, January 15–16, 2007.
“The Hidden Influence of Jewish Law on the Common Law: One Lost Example”
'' Emory Law Journal'' 57 (2008): 1403–08


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Broyde, Michael 1964 births Living people Emory University faculty American Orthodox rabbis American legal scholars Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary semikhah recipients Jewish scholars 21st-century American rabbis