FT readers might be interested to know that the St. John’s Center for Law and Religion and Villanova Law School will host a joint colloquium in law and religion during the Spring 2014 semester. Leading law and religion scholars will make presentations to an audience of selected students and faculty. The schools will be connected through a video link that allows students and faculty at both schools to participate synchronously in a virtual seminar experience.
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 any of the sessions, please email me ( mark.movsesian@stjohns.edu ) or my colleagues Marc DeGirolami ( degirolm@stjohns.edu ) and Michael Moreland ( moreland@law.villanova.edu ).
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