Events

Featured Event

Irwin Cotler, Human Rights Advocate

Harold J. Berman Lecture

The Berman Lecture was founded in 2009 with a generous grant from the Berman family, friends, and supporters to honor the intellectual legacy of Harold J. Berman (1918-2007).

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Suzie McDonald, Alonzo McDonald, and Robert Pool, McDonald Agape Foundation; with John Witte, Jr., Emory University

McDonald Lecture

The McDonald Lecture was founded in 2005 with a $500,000 grant from the McDonald Agape Foundation for a five-year project on Christian Jurisprudence.

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Enola G. Aird, Institute for American Values; Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice, Georgia Supreme Court; Stephen L. Carter, Yale University

Decalogue Lecture

The Decalogue Lecture Series was founded in 2002 with a generious grant from Marion Kuntz in honor of her late husband, Paul Kuntz.

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Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago

Currie Lecture

The Currie Lecture Series in Law and Religion was founded in 1986 with a generous grant from Overton and Lavona Currie.

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"An Apt and Cheerful Conversation on Marriage," February 7, 2001

In this essay, John Witte, Jr. argues that modern Anglo-American marriage law was formed out of two traditions–one rooted in Christianity, a second in the Enlightenment. Each of these traditions has... MORE