by Brian Tamanaha writes at Balkanization on New York Law School Dean Richard Matasar’s recent comments about legal education reform. I’ve raised this issue here before: how might we as law professors informed by religious values contribute to the discussion over legal education reform? An aspect of this problem that particularly disturbs me is that so much [...]
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by I’ve brought up here from time to time an issue that worries me, but that doesn’t worry others much: how serious and threatening is the division between people who adhere to what James Davison Hunter called the “orthodox” position– conservative Christians and devout Jews, mostly– and the adherents of the “progressive” position– secularists, more liberal [...]
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by The failure of Congress to enact a climate change law, like the failure of last December’s Copenhagen meeting to produce a new international climate change treaty, has provoked various responses from the proponents of such measures. A recent article in the New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza) cast blame on Republicans (for being obstructionists), Democrats (for being timid), [...]
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by A recent article in the Economist (“Whose Law Counts Most“) has sparked another round of controversy regarding religious arbitration in the United States. On the heels of the article, a number of thoughtful blog posts have also grappled with the issue (see, e.g., Volokh, Volokh, and CoOp). Abroad, religious arbitration has frequently faced significant opposition (best [...]
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by Seton Hall Law School’s second “Faith, Law and Culture” lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 27, at 4:30 p.m. in the Faculty Library. The speaker is Dr. Miroslav Volf, Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and Directory of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture (http://www.yale.edu/faith/). Dr. Volf is an internationally recognized thinker [...]
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by I spent about eight hours this past weekend reviewing applicants for a college scholarship program. The objective of this very worthwhile program – I don’t want to reveal further details for the usual reasons – is to identify talented, disadvantaged high school students who would benefit enormously from attending the kind of colleges that are [...]
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by Following up on Rick’s post, if you’re in New York next week, the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University will host a panel discussion on October 21, “Christians in the Middle East – Contemporary Human Rights Concerns.” Panelists will discuss problems Middle Eastern Christians face and the potential for addressing them through [...]
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by John Allen reports, in the National Catholic Reporter, that religious freedom has emerged as “the signature issue” for the Synod of Bishops of the Middle East: It’s only day one of the Oct. 10-24 Synod of Bishops for the Middle East, but already its signature issue has come into focus: Religious freedom, seen as the cornerstone [...]
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by Little did you know that LawReligionEthics.com has had a correspondent in Juba, Sudan for the last few days. Sudan has experienced violent religious conflict over the last three decades, leading to the deaths of three million people. I was brought here by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom to speak to a group [...]
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