Reminder about Ave Maria conference on John Paul the Great

After reading Patrick Brennan's recent post about the upcoming Scarpa conference at Villanova, I started thinking--what a great conference, but why do these conferences fall when the baseball pennant races are swinging into high gear, when important college football games (ND-Michigan) are being played, and when many of us are trying to figure out the offsides rule while watching youth soccer games. I then realized that I won't be attending to any of these important matters this weekend either because there is another important conference that will be occupying the time of contributors and friends to MOJ.

On Septemeber 15-16, 2006, Ave Maria School of Law will be hosting a conference on "Pope John Paul II and the Law." This conference is being supported by a generous grant from Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Information about the conference is available here.

Here is the list of speakers, in order of appearance--Kevin Lee, Gerry Bradley, Howard Bromberg, Father Kevin Flannery S. J., Ed Peters, Jane Adolphe, Father Robert Araujo S. J., Jason Eyster, and Richard Myers. I hate to single out any particular speaker but I think the highlights will be Ed Peters's talk on canon law (a much-neglected topic) and the different perspectives on capital punishment that will be offered by Father Flannery (from the Gregorian who this year is the Remick Fellow at Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Culture) and my colleague Howard Bromberg.

The papers from the conference will be published by the Ave Maria Law Review in the spring of 2007

Richard M.