Zalman Rothschild is Assistant Professor of Law and Horn Family Distinguished Research Scholar in Law and Religion at Cardozo School of Law. He holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from New York University. Professor Rothschild’s research focuses on the First Amendment, anti-discrimination law, and law and religion. His scholarship has appeared in Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard Law Review Forum, and Yale Law Journal Forum, and has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. His popular writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and the Washington Post. He has testified before Congress on religion and public schools, has delivered endowed lectures at Vassar College, University of Nebraska, and Yale Law School, and is a 2026–27 Fellow at the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. In 2023 and 2026, the Law and Religion Section of the Association of American Law Schools awarded him the Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship.