by John Stott, the Anglican pastor, passed away this week. For Nicholas Kristof’s thoughtful comment on Stott, see: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/opinion/sunday/kristof-evangelicals-without-blowhards.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 Some have called Stott the “Evangelical Pope.” He wrote more than forty books, translated into over seventy-two languages. Stott’s teaching and writing were major influences in my decisions to focus my work on how Christians should think [...]
Read the full postYou may have already read the tributes to Bill Stuntz in the Harvard Law Review: http://www.harvardlawreview.org/media/pdf/vol124_stuntz_tribute.pdf The conclusion to Michael Klarman’s piece was especially moving: “I think the most important lesson I learned from Bill Stuntz (leaving aside the many lessons about baseball that he thought he taught me) is that people who do not [...]
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by Background On June 14, Congressman Brad Sherman (D - Ca.) announced that he planned to introduce the Religious and Parental Rights Defense Act of 2011 (press release here) although the text of the proposed bill has yet to be circulated. The bill is a response to the recent ballot proposal in San Francisco and similar proposals [...]
Read the full postAs first reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, Matthew Hess – one of the key proponents of the ballot measure to ban circumcision in San Francisco – is also the author of a series of comic books titled “Foreskin Man.” The series includes evil villains such as “monster mohel“ and has been described by the Anti-Defamation League as incorporating “grotesque anti-Semitic [...]
Read the full postThis morning’s edition of Good Morning America featured striking images of Dominique Strauss-Kahn moving into a $14 million dollar NYC apartment where he will await trial and Lady Gaga across town, gyrating with buff male dancers, and singing “I Was Born This Way.” It struck me that Strauss-Kahn might make a similar defense of his [...]
Read the full postElection officials recently confirmed that a proposal to ban circumcision of male children will appear on the November ballot (check out ABC News story here and Wall Street Journal Story here). The measure, if passed, would obviously have significant impact on the Jewish practice of performing a bris milah – ritual circumcision – on 8-day old [...]
Read the full postSecond Annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility
by samuellevine
Submissions and nominations of articles are now being accepted for the second annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility. To honor Fred’s memory, the committee will select from among articles in the field of Professional Responsibility with a publication date of 2011. The prize will be awarded at the 2012 AALS [...]
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by The Sixth Annual Conference on Catholic Legal Thought will take place at the University of Oklahoma College of LawMay 17-19. On May 17 we will spend the afternoon with Paul Griffiths, Warren Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke discussing “The Essential St. Augustine fr 21st Century Lawyers and Law Professors. To facilitate the discussion we are asking [...]
Read the full postOn behalf of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro Law Center, I am pleased to announce the initiation of the Jewish Law Syllabus Project.
I would appreciate if you would send to my attention copies of Jewish Law syllabi, from both current and past courses, taught by you and/or others. Please send email attachments, to: slevine@tourolaw.edu; or printed copies, to: Touro Law Center, 225 Eastview Drive, Central Islip, NY 11722.
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by Some readers of this blog might be interested in my review, available here, of Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari‛a by Abduallahi Ahmed An-Na‛im, which just posted on Ancient Traditions, New Conversations: The Blog of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Cardozo School of Law.
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