Rutgers

Faculty Member, Law School, Camden

Professor of Law

About

Perry Dane is a Professor of Law at the Rutgers School of Law, Camden.  He was previously on the faculty of the Yale Law School, and served as a law clerk to William J. Brennan, Jr., Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Professor Dane is a graduate of Yale College (1978) and the Yale Law School (1981).  His research and teaching interests include religion and the law, conflict of laws, constitutional law, jurisdiction, American Indian law, the law of charities, the jurisprudence of Jewish law, legal pluralism, comparative constitutionalism, the debate on same-sex marriage, the Canadian legal system, and the Middle East peace process.  In January 1997, Professor Dane was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, teaching an intensive course on Religion and the Law.  More recently, in January 2008, he taught a course on Religion and the State in Cross-National Perspective as a visiting professor at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law.  During the 2000-01 academic year, Professor Dane was a faculty fellow at the Rutgers Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture during their program on “Secularism.”  He is presently a Faculty Affiliate of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy.  He has also been a member of the national seminar of the Project on Religious Institutions at Yale University’s Program on Non-Profit Organizations, a guest of the Shalom Hartman Institute In Israel, and a participant in a variety of scholarly conferences around the nation and the world.  During the 2010-11 academic year, Professor Dane will be a full-time resident fellow at the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization at the New York University Law School.

Contact Information

http://www.camlaw.rutgers.edu/bio/925/

217 North Fifth Street
Camden, NJ 08102

856-225-6004
Fax: 856-969-7924


 

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