Religious Liberty after Dobbs - 2023 Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Speaker

425 East University Drive,Tempe AZ 85281

09 February, 2023

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About This EventFor many years, the law has been accommodating the religiously-based moral claims of those opposed to abortion and contraception, despite the fact that the latter were established constitutional rights. But after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the shoe is on the other foot. How will the courts treat people who believe their religion permits (or sometimes even requires) them to obtain or perform an abortion or use contraception? This talk will explore the new questions of conscience that have emerged post Dobbs v. Jackson, the June 2022 case that overturned Roe. About the SpeakerCathleen Kaveny (Ph.D., J.D., Yale University), a scholar whose work focuses on the relationship of law, religion, and morality, serves as the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor at Boston College, where she is jointly appointed to the Department of Theology and School of Law. The author of four books and more than one hundred articles and essays, Kaveny has published extensively in the areas of religion, law, ethics, and medical ethics. Her books include "Law’s Virtues: Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in American Society" (Georgetown University Press), "A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality"(Georgetown University Press), "Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square" (Harvard University Press), and "Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought" (Oxford University Press). A member of the Massachusetts Bar, Kaveny regularly teaches contract law to first-year law students. She also teaches a number of seminars that explore the relationship between theology, philosophy, and law, such as “Faith, Morality, and Law,” “Mercy and Justice,” and “Complicity.” Kaveny is the chair of the Journal of Religious Ethics’ board of trustees and is a regular columnist for Commonweal. She is a former president of the Society of Christian Ethics, and has served on a number of editorial boards including The American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Journal of Law and Religion, and The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. She was the 2018-2019 Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, has served as a visiting professor at Princeton, Yale and Georgetown University, and as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago’s Martin Marty Center. From 1995 to 2013, she taught law and theology at the University of Notre Dame, where she was a John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law. The event will also be live-streamed through the Center's YouTube channel and ASU Live. The Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Speaker Series on Religion and Conflict is an endowed lecture series that honors the life-long commitment of Maxine Besser Marshall ('76) and Jonathan Marshall to education, civil liberties, and world peace.