Religion & Law

This should be a fun and thought-provoking event:

There are 29 law schools in Catholic universities in the United States, and the past 10 years have witnessed a renaissance in Catholic legal education. New law schools have opened with an express commitment to Catholic identity, and established law schools at Catholic universities have undertaken to enhance their institutional mission. Catholic social teaching offers extraordinary opportunities for the integration of Catholic perspectives into legal education, as principles in Catholic social teaching such as solidarity, subsidiarity, the option for the poor, and economic justice provide distinctive bases for both critique and reconstruction of existing legal structures. The 2009 annual conference sponsored by Villanova University School of Law and the Journal of Catholic Social Thought will explore a range of topics at the intersection of Catholic social thought and legal education and how Catholic social thought can produce a vibrantly Catholic approach to law and legal education. The conference will begin a dialogue about the past, present, and future of Catholic legal education in the United States within the framework of Catholic social thought.