John Inazu
Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion
John Inazu teaches in the law school and the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. His latest book is Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect (Zondervan, 2024). Inazu is also the author of Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Yale University Press, 2012) and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2016). He is the special editor of a volume on law and theology published in Law and Contemporary Problems and co-editor (with Tim Keller) of Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference (Thomas Nelson, 2020). Inazu has also published extensively in academic journals on the right of assembly, pluralism, and law and religion.
Inazu has a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, a JD from Duke Law School, and a PhD in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He clerked for Judge Roger Wollman on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and served for four years as an active-duty Air Force attorney at the Pentagon. Inazu is the founder of The Carver Project and the Legal Vocation Fellowship, a Senior Fellow with Interfaith America (where he co-directs with Eboo Patel the Newbigin Fellows and Evangelicals in a Diverse Democracy), a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum, and serves on the boards of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and the John Burroughs School. He and his wife, Caroline, have three children (Lauren, Hana, and Sam), and they are members of Central West End Church.
Inazu publishes a weekly Substack, *Some Assembly Required.