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Michael A. Helfand

Michael A. Helfand is vice dean for Faculty and Research, Brenden Mann Chair in Law and Religion, and codirector of the Nootbaar Institute for Law, Religion and Ethics at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. He also serves as visiting professor and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Fellow at Yale Law School and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Spring 2022

Religious Freedom and Jewish Experience

Michael A. Helfand

Religious liberty is back on the Supreme Court’s docket. The court should think carefully about what freedom of religion really means in different communities. Take Jews for instance . . .

Summer 2020

The First Amendment and the Vocabulary of Freedom

Michael A. Helfand

Oral arguments in a case involving two Catholic schools sometimes sounded less like a jurisprudential clash over the First Amendment than a synagogue kiddush.