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 2026 Schedule
January 23, 2026
Branton Nestor
Non-Resident Fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center
Historical Protections and Limits of the Free Exercise of Religion
January 30, 2026
Alexander Tsesis
D’Alemberte Distinguished Chair in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law
Florida State University College of Law
The Teetering Tradition of Church-State Separation
February 13, 2026
Annika Boone Barkdull
Research Fellow at BYU Law School
Intent and Facially Neutral Blaine Amendments
February 27, 2026
Stephanie Barclay
Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School
The Untold Story of the Proto-Smith Era: Justice O'Connor's Papers and the Court's Free Exercise Revolution
April 10, 2026
Josh McDaniel
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Reconciling Religious Freedom and Military Authority: RFRA and the Separation of Powers
April 17, 2026
Kate Redburn
Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
The Equal Right to Exclude: Religious Speech and the Road to 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis
