Broyde’s areas of interest are law and religion, Jewish law and ethics, family law, and comparative religious law. At Emory, he has taught Alternative Dispute Resolution, Legal Profession, Family Law (I and II), Jewish Law, Federal Courts, Bankruptcy, and Secured Credit as well as other course.
 
Broyde is an ordained rabbi (yoreh yoreh and yadin yadin) from Yeshiva University in New York. He was a member and a director (chaver and dayan) of Beth Din of America, the largest Jewish law court in America for many years. In 2012, he was considered as a candidate for the post of Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. 
 
In Atlanta, Broyde founded a Young Israel synagogue and the Atlanta Torah MiTzion Kollel study program, where he was a religious leader (Rosh Kollel). He served on the boards of schools and various organizations. For over fifteen years, he sat as the chair of the medical ethics committee of the Weinstein Hospice. 

During the fall of 2019, Broyde was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lecturing in Israel and around Europe. In 2021, he was a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw Law School in Poland and in 2018 at the Interdisciplinary College of Law [Reichman University, now] in Herzliya, Israel. In 2020, he was appointed the director of the SJD [the PhD in law] program at Emory Law School.

Broyde frequently lectures and writes on topics related to religious freedom. He has lectured at countless synagogues around the world and dozens of Jewish higher learning institutions (yeshivot and seminaries). He has written or edited a dozen books. His recent books are A Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts (Urim Press, 2017) and Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is writing a five volume series on what Americans can learn from the bible.  The first addresses Genesis and is entitled Sex in the Garden: Consensual Encounters Gone Bad  (Wipf and Stock, 2019), and the second is called "Finding America in Exodus: A Blueprint for a More Perfect Union and was also published by Wipf & Stock (2022). The third volume is set to be published in 2023 or 2024 and is entitled Finding America in Leviticus: Reflections on Nation Building in the 21st Century.  In addition , he wrote Setting the Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’s Arukh HaShulhan, Academic Studies Press (2021).

In addition to Broyde’s books, he has written over300 articles and book chapters on various aspects of law and religion including Jewish law and religious ethics. He has written about military ethics from a Jewish law perspective, marriage and divorce in the Jewish tradition, bioethical dilemmas from a religious view, women’s rights in the Jewish tradition, and the general relationship between secular and Jewish law. His article on impeachment published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy is frequently cited.   He has recently been writing about the secular arbitration process, with his recent article appearing in NYU Annual Survey of American Law and is entitled Contract Law Should Be Faith Neutral: Reverse Entanglement Would Be Stranglement For Religious Arbitration.  In addition, he has been writing on religious arbitration, anti-discrimination laws and the like.

As of August 2023, his more recent twelve articles are:

1. Contract Law Should Be Faith Neutral: Reverse Entanglement Would Be Stranglement For Religious Arbitration, New York University Annual Survey of American Law 
2. Learning Law Young: Towards a More Robust, Impactful Civics Education Modeled Off of Jewish Law Learning.
3. Examining a Controversial Heter: A Woman Converted as an Infant Marrying a Kohen— The Novel Approach of Rabbi Ephraim Greenblatt (Rivevos Efraim).
4. The Concept of Human Rights in Judaism.
5. A Tale of Two Pandemics? How a Law for Torah Reading Became a 'Dead Letter' in the Wake of the Black Death—and Was Brought Back to Life by COVID-19. 
6. האם אישה שנתגיירה בקטנותה רשאית להנשא לכהן בדיעבד?
7. ​Religious Values in Secular Institutions? Yeshiva University and the Future of Religiously Affiliated (but Secularly Chartered) Higher Education in America.
8.  ​“Why Are Women Obligated in Some Time-Bound Positive Commandments and Exempt from Others? A New Theory”, 
9. The Rule of the Talmud vs the Rule of Rabbinic Consensus in the Orach Chaim Section of Rabbi Yeheil Mikjel Epstein's Arukh HaShulhan,
10. נישואי כהן עם גיורת מאימוצה בינקותה,
11. ​Rabbi Yeheil Michel Epstein and his Arukh Hashulchan, Oxford Bibliographies 
12. Religious Alternative Dispute Resolution In Israel And Other Nations With State-Sponsored Religious Courts: Crafting A More Efficient And Better Relationship Between Rabbinical Courts And Arbitration Law In Israel 

Both his books and his articles can be found in the proper section of this web page.

In addition, all of his opeds and the like can be found under the "Short Articles" or "Rabbinic Blog Posts" section of his blog.

Broyde earned his juris doctor from New York University School of Law. During his time at New York University, he published a note on its Law Review. He clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Broyde married labor lawyer Channah, who works in the United States Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor. They have four children (Joshua, Aaron, Rachel, and Deborah) and three grandchildren as of 2023.

For a recent headshot, see this link or this link.

Broyde is a frequent "Scholar in Residence" at various places, and you can see a sample of those events under the flyer section.

The cover of my next book can be found below.

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