Areas of Expertise
Law and Religion, Immigration Law, Migration Studies, Critical Theory, Political Theology, Nationalism
Biography
Silas W. Allard is a senior fellow at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion, managing editor of the Journal of Law and Religion, and a doctoral candidate in ethics and society at Emory’s Graduate Division of Religion. Allard’s scholarship focuses on the legal and religious construction of political community through practices of exclusion with special attention to the role of migration. He is a co-editor of the book Christianity and the Law of Migration (Routledge, 2022). His writing has appeared in journals such as Refuge and Political Theology, and in edited collections on vulnerability, global law, international law, and migration. Prior to his doctoral studies, Allard served as managing director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion and as a law clerk to Chief Judge Donald C. Pogue at the United States Court of International Trade. Allard received his juris doctor and master of theological studies from Emory, and a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from the University of Missouri.