44th Annual Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture, 4/11
"The Ten Commandments as Law"
The Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy welcomes
Leon R. Kass
Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus of Social Thought, University of Chicago
Dean of the Faculty, Shalem College
Senior Fellow Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute
Monday, April 11, 2022
12:30 p.m.
Virtual Event
The Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy welcomes Leon R. Kass to present "The Ten Commandments as Law" for the annual Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture.
Leon R. Kass, MD, PhD is a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute; the Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago; and, since 2021, Dean of the Faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem. He served as vice chairman and research committee chairman of the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities and as chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005.
A lifelong enthusiast of liberal education, Kass was trained in medicine and biochemistry before shifting from practicing science to thinking about its human meaning. For more than 50 years, he has been engaged with ethical and philosophical issues raised by biomedical advances and, more recently, with broader cultural issues.
His most recent book, Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus, was published by Yale University Press in 2021. His other publications include Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times (Encounter Books, 2017); What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2013), co-edited with Amy Kass and Diana Schaub; The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (University of Chicago Press, 2006); Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics (Encounter Books, 2002; Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), co-edited with Amy Kass; and The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature (University of Chicago Press, 1999).
This lecture is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 1 Substantive Distance CLE credit. Please note registration prior to the event is required. Attendees will receive an email from Eventbrite with a Zoom link on the day of the event.
About the Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture:
Through the generosity of Professor Giannella’s family, colleagues, Villanova Law alumni and other friends, an endowed fund was established to honor the distinguished scholar and beloved educator who died in 1974. The lectureship brings a leading scholar to Villanova each year. The paper presented at the lecture is published in the Villanova Law Review.
