upcoming University Faculty for Life conference at Ave Maria

Ave Maria School of Law will host the Fifteenth Annual Conference of University Faculty for Life on June 3-5, 2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The conference is supported in part by a generous grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute.

The conference features over 25 talks on a diverse range of issues relating to life issues. The conference features two plenary talks. One plenary will be by John Keown. Keown, who holds the Rose F. Kennedy Chair in Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and is one of the leading scholars in the world on the legal and moral aspects of euthanasia, will give a lecture entitled "Euthanasia in Europe." The second plenary will be by Richard Wilkins. Wilkins, who is Professor of Law and Managing Director of The World Family Policy Center at Brigham Young University, will speak on "International Law: A Threat to the Right to Life?" The banquet speaker will be Father Thomas King SJ from Georgetown University.

Other notable sessions include a panel discussion on the Terri Schiavo case. That discussion will include presentations by Father Rob Johansen who has written extensively about the Schiavo case, Professor Mark Latkovic from Sacred Heart Major Seminary, and Professor Richard Myers who is a Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law and the President of University Faculty for Life. The conference will also include a talk by Clarke Forsythe, who is the Director of Americans United for Life Project in Law and Bioethics, and a talk by Father John Conley SJ on the thought of Pope Benedict XVI.

University Faculty for Life (UFL) was founded in 1989 to promote research, dialogue, and publication among faculty members who respect the value of human life from conception to natural death. UFL members are drawn from a variety of disciplines, including law, philosophy, mathematics, nursing, theology, history, political science, literature, and psychology.

The conference schedule and a registration form are available on the UFL website, here.