Abstract
Join us for this “Hot Topics: Cool Talk” program as two leading legal scholars with different views discuss the benefits and limitations of religious exemptions in a spirited yet civil dialogue. Rick Garnett (Notre Dame) and Nelson Tebbe (Cornell) will draw on pending and recently-granted Supreme Court cert petitions regarding religious accommodations and their potential tension with other values, such as equality, heath, and education. Professor Greg Sisk, co-director of the Murphy Institute, will moderate the discussion.
1.0 CLE credit has been approved for this program. The event code is 523439 and on-demand code is 531288.
Speakers
Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl Professor of Law, and the Director of the Program on Church, State & Society, at the University of Notre Dame. He teaches and writes about criminal law and punishment, the First Amendment, and constitutional law generally. His co-authored book, Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, was recently published by Oxford University Press. Prof. Garnett comments frequently, and his opinion pieces are published regularly, in a wide range of print, online, and other media. He is a graduate of Duke University and Yale Law School, and he served as a law clerk to the late Chief Justice of the United States, William H. Rehnquist.
Nelson Tebbe is the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Professor Tebbe works on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and general constitutional law. His articles have appeared in leading legal periodicals including Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and Harvard Law Review. He is the author of a book, Religious Freedom In An Egalitarian Age (Harvard University Press, 2017). As a media commentator, he has published opinion pieces in media outlets such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Professor Tebbe also holds a Ph.D. with distinction in the anthropology and sociology of religion from the University of Chicago.