Kudos to CUA Law

Thursday and Friday of last week, the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America hosted a marvelous Roundtable on Religion in the Public Square: Religious Traditions Shaping Law and Public Policy.  According to the host, the recent Roundtable promises to be the first in a series of annual roundtables that CUA Law will hold on timely topics at the intersection of law and religion.  Inter-religious dialogue will be a  hallmark of the the series that is initiative of the Columbus School of Law's dean Veryl Miles, who has just begun her second year in the job.  Last week's interlocutors included Catholics, Evangelicals, Mormons, Islamists, Jews, and members of other religious traditions.  The dialogue that I witnessed was remarkably candid, respectful, and searching.  Everyone I talked to at the Roundtable seemed to agree that every aspect of the event was a real feather in the cap of CUA Law.  It is wonderful to see the Columbus School of Law experiencing something of a renaissance in its practical commitment to its Catholic mission, building in fresh ways on its rich and dynamic tradition.  Congratulations to Dean Miles and to the roundtable planners Lucia Silecchia, Helen Alvare, Bill Wagner, Ben Mintz, and Bob Destro.