Michael Broyde

Michael Jay Broyde (born May 12, 1964) 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.

His primary areas of interest are law and religion, Jewish law and Jewish ethics, and comparative religious law.

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.

Broyde is married to lawyer Channah S. Broyde, and has four children: Joshua, Aaron, Rachel, and Deborah.

Two of his children live in Israel.

He lives in Toco Hills, Georgia.

He received his B.A. in 1984 and was ordained as a rabbi in 1991 by Yeshiva University, and was a member (dayan) of the Beth Din of America.

Broyde was the first rabbi of the Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta, Georgia.

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 holds a Juris Doctor 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.

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".

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.

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.

In 2018, Broyde won a Fulbright scholarship to study religious arbitration.

During 2018–2019, Broyde was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 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, while translating A Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts into Hebrew.

Broyde has written books and delivered speeches on Jewish law, Mishpat Ivri, and Jewish ethics.

His primary areas of interest are law and religion, Jewish law and Jewish ethics, and comparative religious law.

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.