Wednesday, April 10
Jewish Law Institute Spring 2013 Distinguished
Lecturer
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
FCR/BDR at Touro Law Center
"Violating
Divine Law: Emergency Measures in Jewish Law"
Delivered by
Oren Gross
Nomura Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School;Irving
Younger Professor of Law and Director for International Legal & Security Studies,
University of Minnesota Law School
The Abraham Goldstein and
Buffet
Dinner to FollowLillie Goldstein Judaica Collection 30th Anniversary Celebration and Cocktail Reception 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
PROGRAM
DESCRIPTION:
The
annual Conference on Religious Legal Theory (RLT) is designed to bring
together national scholars to explore ways in which religious thought might
help illuminate law and legal theory. The conference addresses a wide range
of substantive, conceptual and philosophical areas of law. The inaugural RLT
Conference was held in 2009 at Seton Hall Law School, and it has since been
hosted at St. John's University School of Law and Pepperdine University
School of Law. This year's conference will be held at Touro Law Center, with
the theme: "Religious Legal Theory - Expanding the Conversation."
Topics will include: Religion and the Practice of Law, Media Perspectives on
Law and Religion, Religion and the Laws of War, among others.
Keynote Speakers:
Kent
Greenawalt, University
Professor, Columbia Law School
Marie
Failinger, Professor of Law; Editor, Journal of Law and Religion,
Hamline University Law School
Geoffrey
Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law; Director,
Center for Financial Institutions, New York University Law School
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