This year's Religious Legal Theory conference -- which started in 2009, at Seton Hall -- is being held at Touro, on April 10-12, thanks to the hard work of (inter alia) Sam Levine. The line-up of speakers, on a wonderfully diverse array of topics, is outstanding. For more information, go here:
The first annual Religious Legal Theory (RLT) conference was held in 2009 at Seton Hall Law School. The conference was designed to bring together national legal scholars to explore ways in which religious thought might help illuminate law and legal theory. The conference addresses a wide range of substantive, conceptual and philosophical areas of law. It has been held annually since its inception at St. John’s University School of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law and this year at Touro Law Center. This year’s conference theme is “Religious Legal Theory – Expanding the Conversation” and includes topics such as Religion and the Practice of Law, Media Perspectives on Law and Religion, Religion and the Laws of War, among others.
Here's a piece about Prof. John Inazu's testimony at an upcoming hearing before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on religious freedom and antidiscrimination principles. And, his (very thoughtful) complete testimony is here.
Amy Uelmen wants to bring this job opportunity to the attention of our readers:
Georgetown University in Washington, DC is seeking a Catholic
Chaplain for our Campus Ministry, Law Center and Medical Center. The Catholic
Chaplain will be an integral part of an ecumenical and interfaith ministry
environment within the Office of Campus Ministry. For a complete job
description and to apply please visit http://www12.georgetown.edu/hr/employment_services/joblist/jobs.cfm
In the middle of that page, in the Job Requisition Number box, enter
20130210 and click the "Search by Job Number" button. On that
page, you will see the job announcement - and at the bottom of the
announcement, a link to "Apply for this position."
And if you're looking for a ministry-type job in Minnesota, Bryan Bademan, Director of MacLaurinCSF, (the Christian Study Center at the University of Minnesota) is looking for "two new part to full-time members of our
staff team. MacLaurinCSF’s mission (strengthening Christian thinking by bridging church and university)
has nurtured a dynamic work environment in which MacLaurinCSF staff
along with University and community members seek to understand the
implications of Christian faith for all of life—especially University
life." More details here.
And if you're stopping over in Minneapolis on your way back from Norman, please come to the UST School of Law to hear Nelson Tebbe and John Inazu rumble over the question: "Is the Supreme Court Threatening Religious Groups?", the latest in the Murphy Institute's "Hot Topics: Cool Talk" series.
If you are in the Norman area tonight, I invite you to a 7pm lecture in the Bell Courtroom at the College of Law. Dr. Thomas F. Farr, the Director of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, will deliver his lecture titled "Christians May Dance No Longer: The Global Crisis in Religious Freedom."
What am I? Well, this time of year, I must confess, I am--unlike Rick G., unlike my dear son Daniel, unlike some of my Emory colleagues and students--I am an ABD: Anybody But Duke! Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa ...
Cardinal Dolan. Right on! No doubt, the "Notre Dame isn't really a Catholic school" crowd on the internet will find some way to spin this as evidence of the University's hell-in-a-handbasket-ness but, as the kids say, I'm stoked. (This is almost as good a "get" as would be Coach K. Maybe next year . . .)
Over at CLR Forum, my friend Pasquale Annicchino has an interesting reflection on current interest in Italy in the "American model" of religion in the public square. Here's a bit:
Why are American cardinals receiving so much attention? One obvious, and superficial, reason is that they are much more skilled, as compared to other cardinals, in communicating and establishing relationships with the media. But there is another factor. The United States’ ability to preserve a vocal religious presence in the public sphere has always raised interest and curiosity in Rome, and especially now, in a time when the secularization of Europe is growing at an unprecedented level. It is not to reveal a secret to say that Benedict XVI himself, on many occasions, expressed appreciation for the “American model,” a model in which religious arguments in the public sphere are heard and debated much more than in Europe.
