The Woodrow Wilson School’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) will host its sixth annual Continuing Legal Education (CLE) conference on Thursday, May 29. The event, titled "Law and Religion,” will explore the law of religion and religious sources of law.  

The United States is a deeply religious country – and a deeply constitutional country.  But can it be religious and constitutional at the same time?   The 2008 LAPA conference will consider topics including faith-based initiatives, public subsidies for religious schools, public prayer, the various meanings of separation of church and state and rights of religious minorities in other countries.  Participants will also ask what religious practitioners should do if their religion demands a particular view of secular law.  
 
Four panel discussions will address recent constitutional controversies over religious liberty; social services & religious schools under the Constitution; comparative perspectives on the legal rights of minorities; and the convergence of demands of religiously observant lawyers, judges and public officials and secular law demands.

Participants will include scholars and professionals from Princeton University; the University of California-Davis School of Law; the University of Notre Dame Law School; the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law; the University of Texas at Austin School of Law; George Washington Law School; the United States Commission on Civil Rights; Duke University Law School; the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights; Emory Law School; and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Each year, LAPA holds a conference the day before Reunions begin for law-engaged alumni. The conference is available for CLE credit for lawyers in all U.S. jurisdictions for a nominal fee. For those who do not need CLE credit, the conference is free. The conference is open to all alumni, as well as all friends of LAPA.

This event will be held from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm in the Multipurpose Room, Frist Center, on the Princeton campus.

To register online please visit the Program in Law and Public Affairs' website.