Jeffrey B. Hammond joined the faculty of Faulkner Law in 2007, where he is currently a Professor of Law. Professor Hammond is a 2001 alumnus of Emory University’s joint-degree program in law and religion, from which he received the Herman Dooyeweerd Prize in Law and Religion. He is a Senior Fellow of Emory’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion. From 2001 to 2007, Professor Hammond practiced exclusively in the area of health law while working for two large law firms in Nashville, Tennessee. Professor Hammond’s research interests include the intersection of law and Christian theology, the religion clauses of the First Amendment, health law, and law and bioethics. Professor Hammond co-edited Christianity and the Laws of Conscience: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2021) with noted legal scholar Helen M. Alvaré. Professor Hammond has published several law review articles, and he has spoken at conferences and symposia organized by leading American law schools. He currently teaches courses in constitutional law, legal ethics, and legal theory. He has taught many other courses in his time at Faulkner Law.
Education
B.A., Harding University
J.D., M.T.S., Emory University
Representative Publications
Book
Co-editor of Christianity and the Laws of Conscience: An Introduction, (with Helen M. Alvare) (Cambridge University Press, 2021) (part of the Cambridge Studies in Law and Christianity series).
Selected Book Chapters
“Introduction” in Christianity and the Laws of Conscience: An Introduction, eds. Jeffrey B. Hammond and Helen M. Alvaré (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U.P., 2021): 1-19.
“Toward a Theology of a Redeemed Conscience,” in Christianity and the Laws of Conscience: An Introduction, eds. Jeffrey B. Hammond and Helen M. Alvaré (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U.P., 2021): 152-169.
“Obeying Conscience: The Commands and Costs of Resisting the Law,” in Faith in Law, Law in Faith: Reflecting and Building on the Work of John Witte, Jr., eds. Rafael Domingo, Gary S. Hauk, and Timothy P. Jackson (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2024).
Journal Articles
The Minimally Conscious Person: A Case Study in Dignity and Personhood and the Standard of Review for Withdrawal of Treatment, 55 Wayne L. Rev. 821 (Summer 2009).
- Cited in the Law and Neuroscience bibliography maintained by the MacArthur Foundation Program on Law and Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University.
The Responsible Patient: The Senior’s Obligation to Conserve Medical Resources, 12 Marquette Elder’s Advisor 123 (Fall 2010) (part of the symposium issue: The Push to Institutionalize Prevention: We Win, We Lose).
Cash Only Doctors: Challenges and Prospects of Autonomy and Access, 80 UMKC L. Rev. 307 (Winter 2011).
What Exactly is Health Care Fraud After the Affordable Care Act?, 42Stetson L. Rev. 35 (2012) (part of the Stetson Law Review Health Law Symposium).
Conscience as Contract. Conscience as Covenant, 4 Faulkner L. Rev. 433 (Spring 2013) (part of the Faulkner Law Review Symposium Issue: Overlapping Jurisdictions: What Role for Conscience and Religion?).
Balance Billing and Physician Reimbursement in an Age of Austerity, 9 J. Health & Biomed. Law 435 (2014).
Consumer-Directed Healthcare By Any Other Name Would Be…Obamacare, 7 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol’y. 331 (2014).
Kim Davis and the Quest for a Judicial Accommodation, 7Faulkner L. Rev.105(Fall 2015)(part of the Faulkner Law Review Symposium Issue: The Meaning of Religious Liberty in the Anglo-American Tradition).
Protestant Legal Theory?: Apology and Objections, 32 J. L. & Rel. 86 (March 2017) (invited contribution to the Journal of Law and Religion’s Symposium Issue on Christian Legal Theory).
“Charity, Convictions, and Consequences: What Jack Phillips Can Teach Christians About Conscience,” 13 J. Christian Legal Thought 1 (2023): 35-41.
Selected Other Publications
Invited Review of Christianity and Constitutionalism, eds. Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leight (Oxford, UK: Oxford U.P., 2022), 66 J. Church & State (Spring 2024): 132.
“Conflicts Between Public Health Measures and Religious Freedom in a Period of Pandemic,” (with Michael J. DeBoer), Fides et Libertas 142 (2021) (Special Issue on Covid-19 and Religious Liberty).
“The Protestant Cases and Covid-19,” (June 2021), canopyforum.org. Canopy Forum is the weblog of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.
“Conflicts Between Religious Liberty and the New Public Health,” (with Michael J. DeBoer) published on canopyforum.org (October 2, 2020) as part of the Law, Religion, and Coronavirus in the United States: A Six- Month Assessment virtual conference. Republished on the weblog of Brigham Young University’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies.
Review of Steven D. Smith, Pagans & Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018) in 35 J. L. & Rel. 519 (2020).
Review of Agape, Justice, and Law: How Might Christian Love Shape Law, eds. Robert F. Cochran, Jr., and Zachary R. Calo (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017) in 7 Comparative Legal History245 (2019).
Invited reprint of review of Agape, Justice, and Law: How Might Christian Love Shape Law, eds. Robert F. Cochran, Jr., and Zachary R. Calo (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017) in 47 Pepperdine L. Rev. 299 [Special Issue (2020). This review was reprinted, with permission, in the Festschrift issue of the Pepperdine Law Review dedicated to Professor Robert F. Cochran’s life and work.]
Selected Presentations
Conflicts Between Religious Liberty and the New Public Health, presented with Michael J. DeBoer at the virtual conference, International Conference on the COVID-19 Pandemic & Religious Freedom: Reports from North America and Europe, sponsored by Andrews University, the Brigham Young University International Center for Law and Religion Studies, and Portsmouth University (December 3, 2020).
Conflicts Between Religious Liberty and the New Public Health, presented at the virtual conference, Law, Religion, and Coronavirus in the United States: A Six-Month Assessment, at the virtual conference sponsored by the law and religion centers of Emory University, Brigham Young University, St. John’s University, University of Notre Dame (USA), and Villanova University (October 2, 2020).
Presenter at Panel Sponsored by the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law at the Institute for Faith and the Academy Annual Conference, October 17, 2019.