5th Annual Philip Pro Lectureship in Legal History - John Witte, Jr.
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Mar 9, 2009
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Moot Court/Auditorium
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Time: 7:00 p.m.
John Witte, Jr., Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Ethics and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, will speak on 'Separation of Church and State in American History and Today: Facts, Fictions, and Future Challenges.'
Professor Witte is an internationally renowned legal historian of marriage and the family, religious liberty, and human rights. He is the author of seventeen books, including Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (Westview Press, 2nd ed., 2005), and The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
The talk is open to faculty, students, and community members, and will be held in the Thomas & Mack Moot Court Facility. There will be a reception immediately following the talk.
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