Pre-Conference Session
“After Hobby Lobby: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s?”
May 7, 2015, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East BC
Harvard Law School,
1585 Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge, MA [Map]
As prelude to the 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Law, Religion, and Health in America,” please join us for a pre-conference session examining the role of religion in the American public sphere. Our expert panel will discuss the nature of conscience and conscientious objection, religious freedom, and religious accommodation from philosophical, theological, historical, legal, and political perspectives.
Panelists:
- J. Dionne, Jr., Columnist, The Washington Post; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
- Diane L. Moore, Senior Lecturer on Religious Studies and Education and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
- Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Frank Wolf, Representative, Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives, 1981-2015 (retired)
- Moderator: Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University and Director, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University
- Moderator: Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center
The panel will be followed by a light reception.
This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Register online!
Full Conference:
“Law, Religion, and Health in America”
May 8-9, 2015
Wasserstein Hall
Milstein East ABC
Harvard Law School
1585 Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge, MA [Map]
Religion and medicine have historically gone hand in hand, but increasingly have come into conflict in the U.S. as health care has become both more secular and more heavily regulated. Law has a dual role here, simultaneously generating conflict between religion and health care, for example through new coverage mandates or legally permissible medical interventions that violate religious norms, while also acting as a tool for religious accommodation and protection of conscience.
This conference will identify the various ways in which law intersects with religion and health care in the United States, understand the role of law in creating or mediating conflict between religion and health care, and explore potential legal solutions to allow religion and health care to simultaneously flourish in a culturally diverse nation.
Highlights:
Keynote Lecture: Religious Liberty, Health Care, and the Culture Wars
- Douglas Laycock, University of Virginia School of Law
Plenary Session: The Contraceptives Coverage Mandate Litigation
- Adèle Keim, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
- Gregory Lipper, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
The conference is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. View the full agenda and register online!
The pre-conference session is co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center and the Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. Initiative on Religious Freedom and Its Implications at the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University.
The 2015 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, “Law, Religion, and Health in America,“ is supported by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund.
