Upcoming Dunn Lecturers
Clyde Wilcox, Jan 19 3:30 - 5:00
Clyde Wilcox is a leading scholar on the subject of religious liberty and author of over thirty books. Mr. Wilcox has also served on the American Political Science Association's Task Force on Religion and Politics and worked as a consultant and expert witness for the Justice Department. Mr. Wilcox is a professor in the Government Department at Georgetown University.
Steve Teles, Feb 2 3:30 - 5:00
Mr. Teles is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law. He also serves as a Schwarz Fellow at the New America Foundation, where his work explores the relationship between politics and policymaking.
Marci Hamilton, Feb 16 3:30-5:00
Marci Hamilton has served as constitutional and federal law counsel in many important clergy sex abuse and religious land use cases in state and federal courts. She is frequently asked to advise Congress and state legislatures on the constitutionality of pending legislation and to consult in cases involving important constitutional issues. She was lead counsel for the City of Boerne, Texas, in Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997), in the Supreme Court's seminal federalism and church/state case holding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act unconstitutional. Ms. Hamilton is the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Before joining the faculty at Cardozo, Ms. Hamilton clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Chai Feldblum, March 1 3:30-5:00
Chai R. Feldblum currently serves as Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, on leave from a professorship at Georgetown. A former law clerk for First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Frank M. Coffin, and Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Professor Feldblum has been a leading advocate and scholar in the areas of disability rights, health and welfare rights, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, and workplace issues. She played a leading role in the drafting and negotiating of both the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. She also helped draft and negotiate the Employment Nondiscrimination Act and various medical privacy bills and regulations. Professor Feldblum is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on sexuality, morality and the law, disability law, and legislative lawyering. Ms. Feldblum worked as Legislative Counsel for the ACLU. Ms. Feldblum also served as director of the Campaign for Military Service, an organization which works to repeal laws that prohibit gays from serving in the military.
Douglas Laycock, March 22 4:00 – 5:30
Douglas Laycock testifies frequently before Congress on the subject of religious liberty and has argued many cases in the courts, including appearances as counsel at the U.S. Supreme Court in three First Amendment cases. He has co-edited a collection of essays, Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty, and he recently published Religious Liberty, Volume I: Overviews and History, the first of a four-volume collection of his many writings on religious liberty. He is vice president of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2009 winner of the National First Freedom Award from the Council on America's First Freedom. Mr. Laycock is the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Ira (Chip) Lupu, April 19 3:30 - 5:00
Professor Lupu is a nationally recognized scholar in constitutional law on the subject of the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Along with his colleague Robert Tuttle, he is co-director of the Project on Law and Religious Institutions. Before joining the faculty at GW Law, Mr. Lupu worked for Hill & Barlow, one of Boston's most elite law firms.
Robert Tuttle, April 19 3:30 - 5:00
Robert Tuttle serves as legal counsel to the Washington DC Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and as a board member of Lutheran Services in America.He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and reports in the fields of legal ethics and church-state law. Mr. Tuttle is a professor at George Washington Law School and Co-Director of the Project on Law and Religious Institutions. Mr. Tuttle has received a masters from the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago and a doctorate in religious ethics from the University of Virginia.
Richard Garnett (not yet scheduled)
Mr. Garnett is the founding director of Notre Dame Law School’s Program in Church, State, and Society, an interdisciplinary project that focuses on the role of religious institutions, communities, and authorities in the social order. Mr. Garnett clerked for former Chief Justice Rehnquist during the Court’s 1996 term and also for the late Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Richard S. Arnold. Mr. Garnett is an associate dean and a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, Mr. Garnett worked for the Washington D.C. firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, where he specialized in religious liberty and criminal defense.
