Speaking of Law and Religion: A Symposium to Celebrate 25 Years ...

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Law and Religion
“Speaking of Law and Religion”
A Symposium to Celebrate 25 Years
of Conversation on the Shape and
Quality of our Common Life
October 23–25, 2008
Hamline University School of Law
Saint Paul, MN

JOURNAL OF Law and
“Speaking of Law and Religion”
A Symposium to Celebrate 25 Years of
Conversation on the Shape and Quality
of our Common Life
The founding of the Journal of Law and Religion twenty-fi ve years ago opened an
on-going, vibrant and wide-ranging conversation to explore the interaction and
intersection of law and religion in shaping and contributing to the quality of our
common life. This conversation has been interdisciplinary from the outset, but over
the years it has increasingly drawn participants from the many religious traditions and
cultures found around the world. Today the Journal is an internationally respected
forum within which scholars, “speaking of law and religion,” have been brought
together to engage each other and the disciplines of law and religion. This dialogue
has considered with utmost seriousness their joint responsibility, and that of these
two disciplines, for the creation of a civilization of genuine peace and
justice in which all might fl ourish.
Thursday, October 23, 2008 Hamline University School of Law
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1 2: 3 0 p.m. Registration/Displays
1:30–3:00 p.m. Welcome
Howard J. Vogel, Associate Editor, Journal of Law and Religion
OPENING AND PLENARY PANEL:
“Speaking of Law and Religion: The Emergence of Studies in Law and Religion—
Steps Along the Way of our Conversation”
Nancy Miller-Herron, Presiding
PANELISTS:
Tom Porter, Attorney at Law, JUSTPEACE Center for Mediation & Confl ict Transformation
Leslie Griffi n, Professor, University of Houston Law Center
Russ Pearce, Professor, Fordham University School of Law
Emily Hartigan, Professor, St. Mary’s University School of Law
3:00–3:30 p.m. Break/Displays
3:30–5:00 p.m. CONCURRENT PAPERS:
“Theological and Political Liberalisms”
Paul Rasor, Director, Center for the Study of Religious Freedom, &
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Wesleyan College
Howard Lesnick, Moderator

Religion
“Is Talmudic Law a Religious Legal System? A Provisional Analysis”
Hanina Ben-Menahem, Professor, Hebrew University, Israel
David Cobin, Moderator
5:30 p.m. Reception
RECOGNITION AND AWARD DINNER/CELEBRATION
Klas Center, Kay Fredericks Ballroom
6:00 p.m. Dinner
Beto Juárez, Chair of JLR Editorial Board, Presiding
Recognition of the Founders
Exemplary Service Award
Friday, October 24, 2008
7:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:15–9:45 a.m. CONCURRENT PAPERS:
“Law, Religion and Human Dignity in the Muslim World Today: An Examination of OIC’s
Cairo Declaration of Human Rights”
Abdullah al-Ahsan, Professor, Department of History and Civilization,
International Islamic University, Malaysia
Michael Perry, Moderator
“Law, Religion, and Culture: The Function of System in Niklas Luhmann and Kathryn Tanner”
Jonathan Rothchild, Assistant Professor,
Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Afra Jalabi, Moderator
9:45–10:15 a.m. Break/Displays
10:15–11:45 a.m. CONCURRENT PAPERS:
“The Foundations of Muslims Peaceful and Just Co-Existence”
Nimat Hafez Barazangi, Research Fellow, Feminist, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies, Cornell University
Asifa Quraishi, Moderator
“Autonomy in Jewish Law—In Theory and in Practice”
Steven Resnicoff , Professor of Law & Co-Director, Center for
Jewish Law & Judaic Studies (JLJS), DePaul College of Law
David Cobin, Moderator
12:00–1:45 p.m. CELEBRATION LUNCHEON
Marie A. Failinger, JLR Editor-in-Chief, Presiding
Welcome: Linda Hanson, President, Hamline University
“Speaking of Law & Religion: Why Law, Why Religion?”—
A Conversation between a Lawyer and a Theologian
Douglas Sturm, Professor Emeritus, Bucknell University,
a theologian working with law
Milner Ball, Professor Emeritus, University of Georgia School of Law,
a lawyer working with theology

2:00–3:30 p.m. PLENARY PAPER:
“Beyond Theocracy and Secularism (Part II): The New Religious Pluralism
and a Post-Secular Paradigm for Law and Religion”
Mark Modak-Truran, J. Will Young Professor of Law,
Mississippi College School of Law
Howard J. Vogel, Moderator
3:30–3:45 p.m. Break/Displays
3:45–5:15 p.m. CONCURRENT PAPERS:
“Must Theology Always Sit in the Back of the Secular Bus?: The Federal Courts’
View of Religion and its Status as Knowledge”
Francis Beckwith, Professor of Philosophy & Church-State
Studies, & Fellow, Institute for the Studies of Religion,
Baylor University
Emily Hartigan, Moderator
“Transcending Tradition: An Examination of the Manner in which the Law Induces
Change in Institutions Defi ned by Religion”
Abhinav Shrivastava, Student, NALSAR University of Law, India
Paula Cooey, Moderator
5:15 p.m. Dinner is on your own
Saturday, October 25, 2008
7:45 a.m. Breakfast Buff et
8:15–9:45 a.m. CONCURRENT PAPERS:
“Religion, Democracy and the Public Schools”
Michael Davis, Centennial Teaching Professor of Law,
University of Kansas
Darryl Trimiew, Moderator
“The Continuing Ambivalence of Evangelical Christians’ Support for Human Rights”
Joel A. Nichols, Associate Professor,
University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minneapolis)
Robin Lovin, Moderator
9:45–10:00 a.m. Break/Displays
10:00 a.m.–noon PLENARY PRESENTATION and CLOSING PANEL:
“Speaking of Law and Religion: What are the New Possibilities for the Conversation
in the Years Ahead?”
Presentation: “Congregations as Public Moral Companions in the 21st Century”
Gary Simpson, Professor of Systematic Theology,
Luther Theological Seminary
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or email Linda Berglin at LBerglin@hamline.edu

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$ 36.00 Recognition/Award Dinner $ 40.00
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