Perry Dane

Perry Dane is a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School.

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, constitutional law and theory, comparative constitutionalism, conflict of laws, legal pluralism, the law of marriage, the jurisprudence of Jewish law, jurisdiction, the law of charities, education law, interfaith dialogue, antisemitism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has also written academic articles on vexillology, the study of flags and their design.

In 2011, Professor Dane received the Inaugural Dean’s Award for Scholarly Excellence at the Rutgers School of Law – Camden. He was a full-time resident fellow at the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization at the New York University Law School during the 2010-11 academic year. He has also taught intensive courses on religion and the law during the January Terms of two Canadian law schools, in 1997 at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law as a Distinguished Visiting Professor and in 2008 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 a Distinguished Fellow of the Faculty of Humanities of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Cardozo Law School, and 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 NonProfit Organizations and a guest of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Israel. He serves on the Advisory Board of Directors of the Institute for Jewish Catholic Relations at Saint Joseph’s University. Professor Dane has presented papers at many academic conferences and symposia.

His more public-facing work includes a Law Day Keynote Address on polarization and the law, several talks at programs sponsored by the Network for Responsible Public Policy, courses at the Chautauqua Institution, addresses at churches, synagogues, and civic groups, and many sermons and talks for his own congregation.