Michael J. Broyde is a professor of law and the academic director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University

Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...

. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. His primary areas of interest are law and religion, Jewish law and ethics, and comparative religious law. Broyde has published more than 70 articles on various aspects of law and religion and Jewish law, and a number of articles in the area of federal courts.

He is ordained (yoreh yoreh ve-yadin yadin) as an Orthodox

Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism , is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the traditional interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and...

 rabbi

Rabbi

In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...

 by Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012...

 and is a member (dayan) of the Beth Din of America, the largest Jewish law court in America. Broyde was the first rabbi of the Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta, GA. He is married to Channah S. Broyde and has four children: Joshua, Aaron, Rachel, and Deborah.

Broyde is a prolific author and speaker on Jewish law, Mishpat Ivri

Mishpat Ivri

Mishpat Ivri In content, Mishpat Ivri refers to those aspects of Halakha that many in modern society generally consider relevant to "non-religious" or "secular" law...

 and Jewish ethics

Jewish ethics

Jewish ethics stands at the intersection of Judaism and the Western philosophical tradition of ethics. Like other types of religious ethics, the diverse literature of Jewish ethics primarily aims to answer a broad range of moral questions and, hence, may be classified as a normative ethics...

. His work is frequently cited by other writers on his subjects of expertise.

Sources

• Emory Law School. http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/index.php?id=1261
• Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. http://cslr.law.emory.edu/people/person/name/broyde/
• List of publications http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/fileadmin/faculty_documents/cv/broyde_cv.pdf
• Online articles http://www.law.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/michael-j-broyde/articles.html
• Biographical information. http://www.yith.org/library/broyde.htm http://www.torahinmotion.org/spkrs_crnr/faculty/bioMichaelBroyde.htm

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
  Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties...
  
   and the Abandoned Wife in Jewish Law: A Conceptual Understanding of the Agunah
  Agunah
  Agunah ; literally 'anchored or chained') is a halachic term for a Jewish woman who is "chained" to her marriage. The classic case of this, is a man who has left on a journey, and has not returned, or has gone into battle and is MIA...
  
   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. “Error in the Creation of Marriage”), Tehumin
  Tehumin
  Tehumin is a Hebrew-language annual journal of articles about Jewish law and Modernity. It has been published in Israel, by the Zomet Institute once a year since its creation in 1980...
  
  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