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 Clinic, the Harvard Religious Freedom Clinic, the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic, the Pepperdine Religious Liberty Clinic, the Stanford Religious Liberty Clinic, the St. Thomas Religious Liberty Appellate Clinic, and the Texas Law and Religion Clinic 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
Establishment as Tradition
February 14, 2025
James Nelson
Vinson & Elkins Professor of Law
University of Houston Law Center
Disestablishment at Work
February 21, 2025
Gabrielle Girgis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ethics and Public Policy Center
A Strict Scrutiny Regime for Free Exercise Post-Smith
February 28, 2025
Caroline Mala Corbin
Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
Religious Liberty for All? A Religious Right to Abortion
April 4, 2025
Stefan McDaniel
Associate Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame School of Law
Disclosing the Ministerial Exception
April 11, 2025
Thomas Berg
James L. Oberstar Professor of Law and Public Policy
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Old European Culture Wars and Modern American Church-State Disputes
