ROFTERS in the Philadelphia area may be interested in attending Villanova Law School’s third annual Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics and Culture this Thursday, February 19, 2009, at the Connelly Center on Villanova’s main campus.
The theme of the conference is “Liberty of Conscience and Religious Equality,” and the all-star speakers include Martha Nussbaum from the University of Chicago, Patrick M. Brennan from Villanova, Jesse Chopper from Berkeley, Rick Garnett from Notre Dame, Kent Greenawalt from Columbia, John McGreevey from Notre Dame, Roderick Hills from New York University, Very Rev. Richard Schenk, OP from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, and Geoffrey Stone from the University of Chicago.
Continuing legal education credit is available for attorneys, and more information can be found here (PDF).
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