Andrew T. Hall (he/him) is a Ph.D. student in Theological Ethics at BC. Andy earned his BA at the University of Arizona, designing an interdisciplinary major around the issue of human trafficking. He co-founded the nonprofit Southern Arizona Against Slavery. He then returned to the University of Arizona for law school, earning his JD with a Certificate in Criminal Law and Policy. He worked as a lawyer for six years in the public and private sectors, primarily in the area of immigration law. He then attended Princeton Theological Seminary, where he earned a dual MDiv and MA in Christian Education and Formation, with concentrations in Reformed Theology; Public Theology; and Theology, Women, and Gender. At PTS, Andy was awarded the Senior Fellowship in Theology, which is given annually to the student who the faculty believes has submitted the best master’s thesis in that field. 

Andy’s research focuses on Christian ethical thought as it pertains to issues of immigration, immigration law, borders, and refugee protection. Influenced by the phenomenological-ethical accounts of thinkers like Emmanuel Lévinas and Judith Butler, he is interested in the extent to which such an alterity- and process-based phenomenology of the self might also extend to conceptualizations of a demos as a national or popular “self,” and what that might imply about the contours of an ethical immigration policy. Andy asks whether states’ purported sovereign right to exclude noncitizens, and to impose coercive border controls toward that end, is justifiable, and to what degree such purported right can be constrained by customary international law, treaties like the UN Refugee Convention, domestic constitutional law, human rights principles, and democratic norms.

Andy’s other research interests include theological anthropology, apophaticism, postmodern theology, political theology, sovereignty, Biblical studies, US jurisprudence, and international relations. 

Andy is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.