A Chicago couple, Joseph and Rebecca Reyes, are involved in a bitter custody case that centers on a court order barring the father from exposing their daughter to non-Jewish religions. The mother is Jewish, he is Catholic, and he had the girl baptized after the couple split. On Jan. 17, 2010, Joseph Reyes took his […]

Lisa Miller was ordered to relinquish custody of Isabella Miller-Jenkins on Jan. 1, 2010, but failed to do so, leading to further legal proceedings. Read about the case in a July 28, 2012, article from The New York Times.

Ellen Marrus is co-director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston Law Center.

Derek H. Davis is dean of the College of Humanities and the Graduate School at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas. He is the author of publications on church and state issues and on religious freedom.

Paul Bennett is director of the child advocacy clinic at the University of Arizona’s College of Law in Tucson.

John C. Blakeman is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His publications include “The Religious Geography of Religious Expression: Local Governments, Courts and the First Amendment,” published in 2006 in the Journal of Church and State.

William G. Ross is a law professor at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. He has written on religion, law and education. He is an expert of judicial ethics, and his work on judicial ethics has been sighted in several federal court decisions.

Kent Greenawalt is a professor at Columbia Law School in New York City. He is the author of publications on church and state issues. He is the author of Religious Conviction and Political Choice (1991).

W. George Scarlett is assistant professor of child development at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. He was an editor of the Encyclopedia of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence.