Benjamin L. Berger is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Socio-Legal Studies at York University, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the convenor of the Osgoode Colloquium on Law, Religion & Social Thought, incoming Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and an editor of the Hart Publishing Series Constitutional Systems of the World. His principal areas of research and teaching are criminal and constitutional law and theory, law and religion, and the law of evidence. He has published broadly in these areas in legal and interdisciplinary journals and edited collections and his work can be found on his SSRN author’s page or by visiting his faculty website.
Winnifred Sullivan begins her post with Bruno Latour’s delicious metaphor from his volume, The Making of Law: that trying to understand life through law is akin to trying to fax a pizza. She moves from that insight to an important set of reflections on how the world of religion fares in an atmosphere of juridification, setting American constitutional law in a critical frame in a way that few of her colleagues are able to do.