John Witte Jr. is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor of Religion, and faculty director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He is the author of The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition and co-author of Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment.

Andrea Pin is professor of comparative law at the University of Padua, Italy. He is the author of The Legal Treatment of Muslim Minorities in Italy: Islam and the Neutral State and Religious Freedom without the Rule of Law: The Constitutional Odysseys of Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iraq and the Fate of the Middle East.