David A. J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He is the author of twenty books, including The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (with Carol Gilligan, Cambridge, 2008), Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law (Cambridge 2010), The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire (Cambridge, 2013), and Why Love Leads to Justice: Love Across the Boundaries (Cambridge, 2016).