October 10, 1997

Has the Supreme Court gone too far?

The School of Law will host a conference titled "Judicial Usurpation and the End of Democracy, Once Again..." on October 24 and 25, starting at 9 a.m. in the Gisevius Moot Court Room 308 of the law school.

The conference will focus on the need to reform the extremes to which decision-making by the United States Supreme Court has gone. The claims that present constitutional regime withdraws protection from the weak and vulnerable, privatizes matters that should be public in nature, and estranges religious believers from the political process will be discussed.

Speakers include: Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, president of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, a nonpartisan interreligious research and education institute in New York City; Russell Hittinger, the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa; John Kramer, professor of law at Tulane University School of Law; Hadley Arkes, the William Nelson Cromwell Professorship of Jurisprudence at Amherst College; Isabel Medina, professor at the Loyola 's School of Law; Robert George, associate professor of politics at Princeton University; and Paul Baier, professor of law at the Louisiana State University Law Center.

The conference is free and open to the public.

The law school will sponsor a conference on rape in April.

-Hilarie Eldridge, Intern in the Office of Public Affairs