Spring 2021 Schedule
February 12, 2021: Douglas NeJaime and Reva Siegel
Douglas NeJaime and Reva Siegel, Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics, 124 Yale L.J. 2516 (2015)
February 26, 2021:
Michael McConnell: The Origins and Historical Understanding of Free Exercise of Religion, 103 Harv. L. Rev. 1409 (1989)
March 12, 2021:
Stephanie Barclay: An Economic Approach to Exemptions, 71 Fla. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020)
March 26, 2021:
Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman: Against Religious Institutionalism, 99 Va. L. Rev. 917 (2013)
April 9, 2021:
Douglas Laycock: The Remnants of Free Exercise, 1990 SUP. CT. REV. 1, 4
April 23, 2021:
Netta Barak-Corren: Religious Exemptions Increase Discrimination Towards Same-sex Couples: Evidence from Masterpiece Cakeshop, 50 J. of Legal Stud. (forthcoming 2021)
May 7, 2021:
Richard Garnett: Freedom of the Church: (Toward) an Exposition, Translation and Defense, in The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders, and Zoe Robinson, eds., Oxford University Press, 2015)
January 28, 2022:
William Eskridge: The Golden Rule
February 11, 2022:
Nicole Garnett & Pat Reidy: Religious Covenants
February 25, 2022:
Christopher Lund: Religious Minorities in the Free Exercise Revolution
March 4, 2022:
Nelson Tebbe: The Principle and Politics of Liberty of Conscience
April 1, 2022:
Elizabeth Sepper: Free Exercise Lochnerism
April 8, 2022:
Sherif Girgis: Defining “Substantial Burdens” on Religion and Other Liberties
Spring 2023 Schedule
February 10, 2023
John Inazu
Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law & Religion
Washington University School of Law
First Amendment Scrutiny: Realigning First Amendment Doctrine Around Government Interests
February 17, 2023
Mark Storslee
Assistant Professor of Law
Penn State Law
The COVID-19 Church-Closure Cases and the Free Exercise of Religion
February 24, 2023
Jessie Hill
Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Religious Nondelegation
March 3, 2023
Laura Portuondo
Fellow with the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice
Yale Law School
Effecting Free Exercise and Equal Protection
March 31, 2023
Andrew Koppelman
John Paul Stevens Professor of Law
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the “Most-Favored-Nation” Theory of Religious Liberty
April 14, 2023
Paul Horwitz
Gordon Rosen Professor of Law
University of Alabama School of Law
Against Martyrdom: A Liberal Argument for Accommodation of Religion