PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE

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University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Journal of Law Religion and State,
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, and Journal of Law & Religion.
Prior to joining the Pepperdine Law faculty, Professor Helfand was an associate at Davis Polk &
Wardwell LLP, where his practice focused on complex commercial litigation. Before entering
private practice, Professor Helfand clerked for the Honorable Julia Smith Gibbons of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
John D. Inazu
Professor John Inazu’s scholarship focuses on the First Amendment freedoms of speech,
assembly, and religion, and related questions of legal and political theory. His first book,
Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Yale University Press, 2012), seeks to
recover the role of assembly in American political and constitutional thought. Professor Inazu's
work is also published or forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Law
and Contemporary Problems, and a number of other law reviews and specialty journals. Prior
to joining the law faculty, Professor Inazu was a visiting assistant professor at Duke University
School of Law and a Royster Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He
clerked for Judge Roger L. Wollman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and
served for four years as an associate general counsel with the Department of the Air Force at the
Pentagon. Professor Inazu holds a J.D. from Duke University School of Law and a Ph.D. in
Political Science from the University of North Carolina.
Ayesha N. Khan
Ayesha N. Khan is the Legal Director at Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Ms. Khan is an expert on First Amendment issues, including the separation of church and state,
the free exercise of religion, and the right of free speech. Under her supervision, Americans
United's legal team has litigated dozens of cases, and filed scores of friend-of-the-court briefs, in
courts throughout the country. In the course of her work, she has appeared before the United
States Supreme Court, almost every federal court of appeals, and dozens of trial courts.
Ms. Khan has made countless media appearances and public presentations, having been a guest
on ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC's HardBall with Chris Mathews, Fox
TV's O'Reilly Factor, CNN's Prime News and The World Today and NPR's Morning Edition, All
Things Considered, and The Tavis Smiley Show. And she has been quoted in almost every
newspaper with a national circulation, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Int'l
Herald Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Chicago Tribune.