Announcing the Joint Colloquium in Law and Religion

The Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s Law School and Villanova Law CLR LogoSchool are pleased to announce an exciting new seminar for Spring 2014, Joint Colloquium in Law and Religion.

This course invites leading law and religion scholars to make presentations to a small audience of students and faculty. The Villanova Lawschools will be connected through video link so that students and faculty at both schools will be able to participate synchronously in a virtual classroom seminar experience. Mark and I are absolutely delighted to be working on this project with Villanova Law School Vice Dean and Professor Michael Moreland.

The following speakers have confirmed:

January 27: Michael Walzer (Institute for Advanced Study) (at St. John’s)

February 10: Sarah Barringer Gordon (University of Pennsylvania Law School) (at Villanova)

February 24: Kent Greenawalt (Columbia Law School) (at St. John’s)

March 17: Donald L. Drakeman (Cambridge University) (at St. John’s)

March 31: Kristine Kalanges (Notre Dame Law School) (at St. John’s)

April 14: Steven D. Smith (University of San Diego Law School) (at Villanova)

Topics will be announced at a future date.

For more information, or if you would like to attend the sessions, please contact the Colloquium’s co-organizers, Marc DeGirolami (degirolm@stjohns.edu), Mark Movsesian (movsesim@stjohns.edu), and Michael Moreland (moreland@law.villanova.edu).

The Top Five New Law & Religion Papers on SSRN

From SSRN’s list of most frequently downloaded law and religion papers posted in the last 60 days, here are the current top five.  Since last week, Perry Dane remains at #1, Douglas Laycock has moved up to #2, Dwight Newman has moved down to #3, Elizabeth Sepper remains at #4, and Richard Garnett remains at #5.

1. Doctrine and Deep Structure in the Contraception Mandate Debate by Perry Dane (Rutgers, School of Law) [216 downloads]

2. Religious Liberty and the Culture Wars  by Douglas Laycock (U. of Virginia, School of Law) [195 downloads]

3. On the Trinity Western University Controversy: An Argument for a Christian Law School in Canada by Dwight G. Newman (U. of Saskatchewan, College of Law) [167 downloads]

4. Contraception and the Birth of Corporate Conscience  by Elizabeth Sepper (Washington U., School of Law [129 downloads]

5. ‘The Freedom of the Church’: (Towards) an Exposition, Translation, and Defense by Richard W. Garnett (Notre Dame Law School)  [104 downloads]