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Brandon Paradise is an Associate Professor of Law and Professor Dallas Willard Scholar at Rutgers Law School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Newark. He earned a B.A. magna cum laude in economics and philosophy from the University of Southern California in 2001 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2004, where he served as an editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. He also studied church history at Union Theological Seminary. Prior to academia, Paradise practiced law as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York and Sidley Austin LLP in Los Angeles.

Paradise's research interests encompass the relationship between legal and personal ethics, the legal profession, legal education, law and theology, and race and the law. He is a leading scholar of the intersection of race, law, and Christianity, and a widely sought-after speaker on religious liberty and racial equality. His key publications include Bearing Witness to Truth: Christianity at the Crossroads of Race and Law (forthcoming 2024 in Faith in Law, Law in Faith), Liberalism and Orthodoxy: A Search for Mutual Apprehension, 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1657 (2023, with Sergey Trostyanskiy), Confronting the Truth: The Necessity of Love for Justice, 37 Journal of Law and Religion 230 (2022), How Critical Race Theory Marginalizes the African-American Christian Tradition, 20 Mich. J. Race & L. 117 (2014), Racially Transcendent Diversity, 50 University of Louisville Law Review 415 (2012, cited in U.S. Supreme Court amicus briefs in Fisher v. University of Texas), and Militant Covering, 33 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 161 (2010). Paradise received the 2021-2022 Rutgers Law School Professor of the Year award. He holds positions as McDonald Distinguished Fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Nootbaar Fellow at Pepperdine Caruso Law School, board member of the Institute for Studies in Eastern Christianity at Union Theological Seminary, and research fellow at the Human Network Initiative in the Neurology Department of Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.