June Conference on Catholic Legal Thought

Here's the schedule for the June Conference on Catholic Legal Thought to be hosted this year by the University of St. Thomas, in Minneapolis.  Highlights:

Wednesday, June 13, 2007: Introductory Day on Catholic Social Thought, Through the Lens of the Ethics of Economic Life, by Daniel Finn,  Dept of Economics & Department of Theology, St. John's University, Collegeville, MN

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Roundtable:  Tensions in Arguments from Scientific and Theological Bases in Development of CLT Related to “Life” Issues – Stem Cell Research, Assisted Reproduction, Abortion, Contraception (Teresa S. Collett, University of St. Thomas School of Law; Sr. Marie Paul Lockerd, M.D., Religious Sisters of Mercy; O. Carter Snead, Notre Dame Law School; Paul J. Wojda, Unversity of St. Thomas Dept. of Theology, Catholic Studies Program; Moderator: Amy Uelmen, Fordham University)

Workshopping Book Project: "To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds: Rekindling the Spirit of Our Living Constitution," Michael Scaperlanda, University of Oklahoma College of Law

Spiritual Reflection Susan Stabile, St. John’s University School of Law

Friday, June 15, 2007

The challenges modern legal theories pose to traditional Catholic understanding of the law   William T. Cavanaugh, University of St. Thomas Theology Dept.

Discussion of Chapter 1 (“The Myth of the State as Saviour”) of Cavanaugh’s Theopolitical Imagination Respondents: Patrick M. Brennan, Villanova University School of Law & Kevin P. Lee, Campbell University School of Law

Relating the encyclical Quas Primas to the ordering of the business world (Dennis Q. McInerny, Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary; Brian M. McCall, University of Oklahoma College of Law; Lyman P. Johnson, Washington & Lee School of Law)

Field Trip to Loome Theological Booksellers, "the World’s Largest Used Theological Bookstore," in Stillwater, MN