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Conference Announcement: Liberalism, Constitutionalism, & Christianity at Campbell

By Lawrence Solum

The conference will consider the relationship between liberalism and Christianity and their influence on American constitutionalism. The conference will investigate the extent to which classical liberalism and Christianity influenced the formulation of the Constitution and the thought of the Founding era. It will focus on the importance of foundational Christian commitments to characteristic notions of religious toleration and freedom of association as they are borne out in the thought of the Founders and the founding era. 

The conference will be hosted on May 18, 2011, at Campbell University School of Law, located in Raleigh, North Carolina.  The following presenters will be featured:  

Professor Robert F. Cochran, Director of the Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute of Law, Religion, and Ethics and the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law, Professor John M. Breen, Loyola University Chicago School of Law; Professor Bruce P. Frohnen, Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law; Professor Michael Scaperlanda, University of Oklahoma College of Law; Professor Barry Shain, Colgate University; Professor John Inazu, Visiting Professor, Duke University School of Law; Professor Anthony Baker, Visiting Professor, John Marshall Law School; Professor C. Scott Pryor, Visiting Professor, Campbell University School of Law; Dean Donald R. McConnell, Trinity Law School. 

All are invited.  Attendees may find more details and register online at: http://law.campbell.edu/pubs/lawrev.cfm?volume=32&number=2

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on January 17, 2011 (boomark / email).