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The McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy Hosts Inaugural Summer Fellowship Program
In summer 2020, the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy held its inaugural Summer Fellowship Program. The McCullen Center offered six internship placements to students in the areas of constitutional law, the role of religion in civil society, and the promotion of human dignity and the common good. The program also offered 12 research assistantships to students who wished to conduct research projects under faculty supervision on issues related to the intersection of law, religion and public policy.
New Constitutional Studies Initiative to examine the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and religion
The new initiative is part of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy at the Charles Widger School of Law. Students and scholars will explore the significance of the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and religion, as well as the relationship between economic freedom and civil society, through a new Constitutional Studies Initiative.
Villanova University Appoints Michael P. Moreland, JD, PhD, as University Professor of Law and Religion
Dr. Moreland also appointed Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. Villanova University Provost Patrick G. Maggitti, PhD, today announced the appointment of Michael P. Moreland, JD, PhD, as University Professor of Law and Religion.
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law announced today that its Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy will be named in honor of Eleanor H. McCullen, recognizing recent gifts totaling $5 million from her husband, Joseph T. McCullen Jr. ’57 CLAS.
Events
- A Conversation on the Constitution, Faith and Public Life with Mike Pence, 09/18
- Free Speech and Higher Education, 03/18
- Legal Civility: Perspectives from the Bench and Bar, 02/27
- International Humanitarian Law and the Israel/Hamas War: Understanding the Principles of Proportionality and Distinction, 02/20
"The Decline of Natural Law: How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Why They Stopped"
Tuesday, September 21
Virtual Event
Watch recorded lecture
Church Today: Responding to the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church
Saturday, March 20
Virtual Event
Education Freedom in the Age of COVID
Wednesday, March 10
Virtual Event
Civil Liberty and The Rise of Cancel Culture
Sponsored by the Union League Legacy Foundation and the McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy, Villanova University
Thursday, February 18
Virtual Event
"Saving our Order: Thomas Becket, Henry II and the Law of Church and State" featuring Rowan Williams
Thursday, December 10
Virtual Event
A recording of this lecture is available to view online.
43rd Annual Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture
Thursday, October 22
Virtual Event
Religious Liberty at the Supreme Court
Tuesday, September 24
Virtual Event
Law and the Augustinian Tradition Lecture Series: "Black Dignity and the Augustinian Political Theology"
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Virtual Event
Religious Freedom: A Global Conversation
February 10, 2020
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
The Legacy of Nuremberg: 75 Years Later
Presented by The David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity and Compliance, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Greater Philadelphia Law Professors' Ethics Consortium
October 29, 2020
Virtual Event
Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
November 12, 2019
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
The Irony of Modern Catholic History
November 4, 2019
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
The Art and Science of Judging in a Constitutional Republic
October 28, 2019
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
A Christian Idea of Our Society
September 27, 2019
Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome
Law and the Augustinian Tradition Lecture Series
September 5, 2019
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Promoting a Responsible and Free Conscience in Today's Society
June 14-15, 2019
Blackfriars, Oxford, UK
Co-sponsored by Las Casas Institute; the Aquinas Institute; the Anscombe Centre, Oxford; and the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham.
The Honorable Amy Coney Barrett on Constitutional Originalism and Continuity
February 25, 2019
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
A recording of this lecture is available to view online.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Keynotes Conference on “The Value of Tradition in the Global Context”
December 2018
Rome campus of Università LUMSA
Law and the Augustinian Tradition Inaugural Lecture Series
August 28, 2018
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
The Annual Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture: Anthony T. Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School
April 24, 2018
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
The 2018 Joseph T. McCullen Jr. Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Law
April 10, 2018
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
The 2017 Joseph T. McCullen Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Law
March 17, 2017
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
The 2017 Joseph T. McCullen Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Law
March 17, 2017
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
The 2016 Joseph T. McCullen Jr. Symposium: Emerging Questions in Adoption Law and Catholic Social Thought
April 22, 2016
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
The Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy
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