Law, Religion, and Politics: Challenges to Traditional Borders in Global and Comparative Perspectives | Yale Law School
Law, Religion, and Politics: Challenges to Traditional Borders in Global and Comparative Perspectives | Yale Law School:
Marking the fourth anniversary of the Debating Law & Religion Series, the Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School will be hosting a conference on Law, Religion, and Politics: Challenges to Traditional Borders in Global and Comparative Perspectives on November 6-7. It will draw together leading scholars of religion from across traditional academic disciplines to reassess the place of religion in our contemporary societies. Panels will investigate the diversification of Church-State arrangements across the world as well as the emergence of counter-narratives that challenge the traditional arc of modern secularization. In addressing traditional debates about the place of religion in the public sphere (e.g., ban of religious symbols, religious exemptions to general laws, state subsidies for faith-based initiatives, etc.) as well as the institutional and social changes they have provoked, this conference seeks to understand the relationship of law and religion in the contemporary world and to explore its legal and political implications.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact monika.piotrowicz.@yale.edu
November 6, 2015
Law, Religion, and Politics: Challenges to Traditional Borders in Global and Comparative Perspectives
Graduate Student Workshop
November 6 and 7, 2015
New Haven, CT
November 6 and 7, 2015
New Haven, CT
Organized by the Yale Law School and the Yale Divinity School
Marking the fourth anniversary of the Debating Law & Religion Series, the Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School will be hosting a conference on Law, Religion, and Politics: Challenges to Traditional Borders in Global and Comparative Perspectives on November 6-7. It will draw together leading scholars of religion from across traditional academic disciplines to reassess the place of religion in our contemporary societies. Panels will investigate the diversification of Church-State arrangements across the world as well as the emergence of counter-narratives that challenge the traditional arc of modern secularization. In addressing traditional debates about the place of religion in the public sphere (e.g., ban of religious symbols, religious exemptions to general laws, state subsidies for faith-based initiatives, etc.) as well as the institutional and social changes they have provoked, this conference seeks to understand the relationship of law and religion in the contemporary world and to explore its legal and political implications.
Schedule
Friday, November 6
9:30 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Dean Robert Post
10:00 – 11:50 am
Religion and Constitutions: Exploring Diverse Constitutional Arrangements with Religion
Bruce Ackerman (Yale Law School), Shaun Casey (State Department), Mirjam Kunkler (Princeton), Jaclyn Neo (National University of Singapore), Michael Rosenfeld (Cardozo School of Law)
1:30 – 3:15 pm
The Movement to the Post-Secular: A Global Perspective
David Grewal (Yale Law School), Jean Cohen (Columbia), David Hollinger (Berkeley), Lamin Sanneh (Yale Divinity School), Farshad Ghodoosi (Yale Law School)
3:45 – 5:30 pm
Neutrality, Separation, and Religion: Does Religious Diversity Challenge Traditional Accommodations?
Seyla Benhabib (Yale University), Philip Hamburger (Columbia Law School), Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern Law School), Tariq Modood, (University of Bristol, UK), Tisa Wenger (Yale Divinity School)
Saturday, November 7
9:00 – 10:45 am
Religious Mobilization, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Secular Jurisprudence
Thomas Berg (University of St Thomas School of Law), Marci Hamilton (Cardozo Law School), Susanna Mancini (University of Bologna), Reva Siegel (Yale Law School)
11:00 - 12.45 pm
The Relationship between Reason and the Sacred in Modern Society
Dan Markovits (Yale Law School), Cliff Ando (University of Chicago), Asli Bali (UCLA School of Law), Stephen Carter (Yale Law School), Paul Kahn (Yale Law School), Miroslav Volf (Yale Divinity School)
12:45 pm Concluding Remarks with Professor Patrick Weil
1:00 -2:00 pm Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm Graduate Students Workshop – Session 1
4:00 – 5:30 pm Graduate Students Workshop – Session 2
For more information and to RSVP, please contact monika.piotrowicz.@yale.edu
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