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When Law and Religion Meet

This series provides a forum for religious leaders to discuss difficult legal, moral, and ethical issues facing their religious communities.

2012-2013

Michael Welker: The Power of Mercy in Biblical Law

Frank S. Alexander: Housing America's Families: Investments, Risks, and Families

Martha A. Fineman: What it Means to be Human: Vulnerability and the Human Condition

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse: Blessing Vulnerability, Building Resilience: Children, Church, and Community

2011-2012

Michael J. Broyde: The Bioethical Future: Some Jewish Thoughts on Reproductive Ethics

Mary Ann Glendon: Religious Freedom: A Second-Class Right?

John Witte, Jr.: Shari'a in the West? What Place for Religious Family Law in America and Other Western Democracies?

Luke Timothy Johnson: Jesus and the Law of Marriage and Divorce

Michael J. Perry: Freedom of Religion, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Catholic Church

2008-2009

Wilton D. Gregory: The Catholic Church and the Death Penalty

Irwin Cotler: The Danger of a Genocidal and Nuclear Iran

Mona Siddiqui: Islamic Law in Britain: A Minor Problem or a Problem for a Minority?

Gene Robinson: Why Religion Matters in the Quest for Gay Civil Rights: Part 1

Gene Robinson: Why Religion Matters in the Quest for Gay Civil Rights: Part 2