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 2024 Schedule
February 2, 2024
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Nathan Chapman
Pope F. Brock Associate Professor of Professional Responsibility
University of Georgia School of Law
The Case for the Current Free Exercise Regime
February 9, 2024
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Jim Oleske
Professor of Law
Lewis & Clark Law School
Free Exercise Uncertainty: Original Meaning, History and Tradition, Nuanced Doctrine, or None of the Above?
February 16, 2024
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Asma Uddin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Catholic University of America
The Social Psychology of Religious Liberty Depolarization
March 1, 2024
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Amy Sepinwall
Associate Professor, The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Confusions in Compelled Speech
April 5, 2024
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Zalman Rothschild
Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow, Lecturer in Law
University of Chicago School of Law
The Impossibility of Religious Equality
April 12, 2024
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Lael Weinberger
The Limits of Church Autonomy