tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222418233330841391.post5694296855605436861..comments2024-03-27T05:25:04.829-04:00Comments on Hallowed Secularism: The 2010 Annual Conference on Christian Legal ThoughtBruce Ledewitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10419873523392584062noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222418233330841391.post-85174995251128207052010-01-12T17:36:05.816-05:002010-01-12T17:36:05.816-05:00Well, few American law schools are actually religi...Well, few American law schools are actually religious in a meaningful sense. Duquesne, for example, is indistinguishable from a secular school except for the crosses on the walls and the prayers at school events. I would consider a law school religious only if religion somehow played a role in the curriculum generally. If a school took seriously Paul's injunction to stay out of court for instance. BU identifies itself as Lutheran (I don't know about the law school). George Mason I believe is entirely secular as an institution. They are identified with the law and economics movement.Bruce Ledewitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10419873523392584062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222418233330841391.post-22479945082877420132010-01-12T15:48:00.990-05:002010-01-12T15:48:00.990-05:00Thanks, when you said Regent Law School I assumed ...Thanks, when you said Regent Law School I assumed they were representative of the Protestants. I was also thinking of BC (not BU), your school, and other Catholic law schools I know, so the divide seemed huge.<br /><br />Are BU and George Mason Law Schools explicitly Protestant? Were there many attendees from secular law schools?Norwegian Shooterhttp://norwegianshooter.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222418233330841391.post-42036595869542281592010-01-12T11:42:57.162-05:002010-01-12T11:42:57.162-05:00I was wondering the same thing and I tried to figu...I was wondering the same thing and I tried to figure out who was Catholic and who Protestant. I could not tell. Most of the law schools represented were not Catholic, but that says little about the speakers. Going out on a limb, it seemed to me that the more philosophical the talk, the more likely the speaker was to be Catholic. The more applied, the more Protestant. Yes, the Protestant schools were academically respectable: Boston University, George Mason etc. Not as much talk about poverty this year as in the past, but I don't think the group is essentially economically conservative. The Federalist Society was meeting at the same time and there did not seem to be much overlap. I don't get the feeling it is a Robert George group, but I could obviously be wrong.Bruce Ledewitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10419873523392584062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222418233330841391.post-81103742676072261572010-01-11T12:19:57.070-05:002010-01-11T12:19:57.070-05:00I'd be interested to know the Catholic vs. Pro...I'd be interested to know the Catholic vs. Protestant breakdown. And if the Protestant law schools represented were considered academically respectable. Maybe age has a part to play here as well. I suspect that Catholic social justice would be considered "old school" now, with Robert George and the Conference of Catholic Bishops pointing to the trend.Mark Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12604074895219791713noreply@blogger.com