Michael A. Helfand is the Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law and Religion and Co-Director of the Nootbaar Institute for Law, Religion and Ethics at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law; the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor and Research Fellow in the Brodie Center for Jewish and Israeli Law at Yale Law School; Senior Legal Advisor for the Orthodox Union’s Teach Coalition; and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Professor Helfand’s academic articles have appeared in numerous law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, New York University Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and Washington University Law Review. He often provides media commentary on clashes between law and religion, writing for various public audience publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Forward. Before joining the faculty at Pepperdine, Professor Helfand was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell and clerked for the Honorable Julia Smith Gibbons on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He received his JD from Yale Law School, PhD in Political Science from Yale University, and BA from Yeshiva College.