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It's a deep dive into law and religion in this conservative supermajority iteration of the Supreme Court. Kate talks with Micah Schwartzman of UVA and Nelson Tebbe of Cornell about some of the major religious liberty cases that have come before the Court in recent years, and what the Court may be signaling for the future.
The Catholic Church lobbies for special treatment to gain billions of PPP dollars. FFRF attorney Ryan Jayne tells us about the secret phone calls between the White House and religious groups to funnel money to Trump's preachers. Then law professors Nelson Tebbe and Micah Schwartzman discuss their powerful New York Times article, "The quiet demise of the separation of church and state."
Cornell Law School Professor Nelson Tebbe and Dr. Abhinav Chandrachud, author and advocate at the Bombay High Court, join us for an episode on religious freedom in India and the United States. We discuss both countries' constitutional history with religion, including how the United States Constitution informed India's. We also cover the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Muslim travel ban, and venture onto some interesting tangents!
UVA Law professors Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman join Cornell’s Nelson Tebbe to discuss the evolution of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on religion.
On September 7-8, 2018, the Federalist Society's Fort Worth Lawyers Chapter hosted the fourth annual Texas Chapters Conference. The third panel covered "Religious Liberty and Conscience Rights in the Trump Era."Featuring: Justin Butterfield, Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, Health and Human ServicesEric Rassbach, Deputy General Counsel, BecketKelly Shackelford, President and CEO, First Liberty InstituteProf. Nelson Tebbe, Cornell Law SchoolModerator: Judge Don R. Willett, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth CircuitAs always, the Federalist Society takes no particular legal or public policy positions. All opinions expressed are those of the speakers.
On September 7-8, 2018, the Federalist Society's Fort Worth Lawyers Chapter hosted the fourth annual Texas Chapters Conference. The third panel covered "Religious Liberty and Conscience Rights in the Trump Era."Featuring: Justin Butterfield, Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, Health and Human ServicesEric Rassbach, Deputy General Counsel, BecketKelly Shackelford, President and CEO, First Liberty InstituteProf. Nelson Tebbe, Cornell Law SchoolModerator: Judge Don R. Willett, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth CircuitAs always, the Federalist Society takes no particular legal or public policy positions. All opinions expressed are those of the speakers.
Shaking off the rust after a two-week break, we’re back to argue about the Supreme Court’s latest entry in the “Let Us Pray” genre. We are joined by law and religion scholar Nathan Chapman and focus on ancient Greece, where by Greece we mean Greece, New York, and by ancient we mean 1999. That’s when the town began to invite local clergy to its monthly Town Board meetings to deliver short prayers. For almost a decade, these prayers were uniformly Christian and almost always explicitly so. Government and prayer: what to do? We disagree. This show’s links: Nathan Chapman’s faculty profile and writing Nathan Chapman, Disentangling Conscience and Religion This Week in Law, Episode 258, featuring Christina Mulligan and recommending our show Oral Argument 18: Oral Argument, with Tom Goldstein Town of Greece v. Galloway, Supreme Court, pdf and html Town of Greece v. Galloway, Judge Calabresi’s opinion for the Second Circuit Allegheny County v. Greater Pittsburgh ACLU, a creche case that uses the “endorsement” test Marsh v. Chambers, the principle Supreme Court case on legislative prayer Lemon v. Kurtzman, origin of the so-called Lemon test for Establishment Clause challenges Lee v. Weisman, prohibiting prayers at public school graduation ceremonies McCreary County v. ACLU, finding a predominantly religious purpose in displaying the Ten Commandments in courthouses and holding government must remain neutral between religious and non-religious viewpoints, with O’Connor’s concurrence decisive Nelson Tebbe and Micah Schwartzman, The Puzzle of Town of Greece v. Galloway Akhil Amar, The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction Marie Griffith, The Establishment Clause: An Interview with Judge Guido Calabresi Guido Calabresi, video of lecture, What about the Establishment Clause? (his remarks begin at 8:50) The entry gate to New Haven’s Grove Street Cemetery Special Guest: Nathan Chapman.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Presented by the Divinity School's Craft of Teaching in the Academic Study of Religion program. Led by Divinity School alumnus Nelson Tebbe (PhD, Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, 2006), Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Prof. Tebbe's scholarship focuses on the relationship between religious traditions and constitutional law, both in the United States and abroad, and is a regular commentator in the media on religious freedom. He is also a past recipient of the Dean's Teaching Award at St. John's School of Law. Prof. Tebbe will introduce and discuss his courses and teaching strategies at Brooklyn Law School. Divinity School students will be especially interested to learn how Prof. Tebbe's dual specializations and disciplinary trainings are integrated in his teaching, and what teachers of religion practicing their craft in other contexts can learn from the best practices of signature law school pedagogies.