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2022 Symposium

Post-Colonial Iterations of Law & Religion in the Global South

Presented by:
Dr. Adnan Zulfiqar, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School and Regional Scholar (Middle East Center), University of Pennsylvania
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine

2016 Symposium

Rutgers Reformed: A Historical Look at Religion in American Public Higher Education

Presented by:
Thomas Frusciano, Rutgers University Archivist, Special Collections;
John W. Coakley, L. Russell Feakes Memorial Professor of Church History at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary;
Jessie Hill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs;
Judge Ben C. Green, Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

2014 Symposium

The Town of Greece and its Impact on the Establishment Clause

Presented by:
Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State;
Eric Rassbach, Deputy General Counsel at the Becket Fund;
Perry Dane, Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Camden.

Mr. Rassbach’s speech, Lemon, Marsh, and Refounding Establishment Clause Jurisprudence, and Rev. Lynn’s written analysis, Dissecting Marsh and Town of Greece: A Comparative Analysis, were both published in the Summer Issue of Volume 15

2011 Symposium

The Landscape of Faith: Disestablishment and Property in the Early Republic

Presented by:
Sarah Barringer Gordon, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

2010 Symposium

Law and Religion: An Islamic Perspective

Presented by Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of Law at UCLA
In addition to his scholarly work in the field of human rights, Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is one of the world’s leading experts on Islamic Law and Islam. In his symposium lecture, he urged the adoption of a non-Western approach to analyzing secularism in Islam.

2010 Symposium

2009 Symposium

The Religious Exemption Debate

Presented by Professor Douglas Laycock
Professor Laycock is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of remedies and also on the law of religious liberties. His symposium discussion focused on the long-running judicial and political battle over protection of religious liberty and enforcement of government regulation. His speech is published in the Fall Issue of Volume 11.