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The Donald C. Clark Jr. Program in Law and Religion Lecture Series

Current Symposium

Details forthcoming.

Past Symposiums

March 28, 2011:  The Landscape of Faith:  Disestablishment and Property in the Early Republicpresented by Sarah Barringer Gordon, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

2010:  Law and Religion: An Islamic Perspective, presented by Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of Law at UCLA.  In addition to his scholarly work in the field of human rights, Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is one of the world's leading experts on Islamic Law and Islam.  In his symposium lecture, he urged the adoption of a non-Western approach to analyzing secularism in Islam.

See recorded 2010 Symposium presentation

2009:  The Religious Exemption Debate, presented by Professor Douglas Laycock.  Professor Laycock is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of remedies and also on the law of religious liberties.  His symposium discussion focused on the long-running judicial and political battle over protection of religious liberty and enforcement of government regulation.  His speech is published in the Fall Issue of Volume 11.