As part of Yale Law School’s Free Exercise Clinic, the Free Exercise Speaker Series is an inter-law school workshop, with students and faculty from the Yale Law School’s Free Exercise Clinic1, the Harvard Religious Freedom Clinic2, the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic3, the Pepperdine Religious Liberty Clinic4, the Stanford Religious Liberty Clinic5, the St. Thomas Religious Liberty Appellate Clinic6, and the Texas Law and Religion Clinic7 participating. Speakers will present classic and forthcoming articles, affording participants a broad community in which to engage and debate the most timeless and pressing questions implicating the free exercise of religion.
Spring 2025 Schedule
February 7, 2025
Marc DeGirolami
St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law
Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America
Traditionalism Rising8
February 14, 2025
James Nelson
Vinson & Elkins Professor of Law
University of Houston Law Center
Disestablishment at Work9
February 21, 2025
Gabrielle Girgis
Research Fellow
Georgetown Law Center for the Constitution
Taming Strict Scrutiny10
February 28, 2025
Caroline Mala Corbin
Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
Religious Liberty for All? A Religious Right to Abortion11
April 4, 2025
Stefan McDaniel
Associate Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame School of Law
Disclosing the Ministerial Exception12
April 11, 2025
Thomas Berg
James L. Oberstar Professor of Law and Public Policy
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Can First Amendment "History and Tradition" Protect Both Sides in Polarized America13?
