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 "The Global economic crisis, law and the religious traditions"

 A Program to Explore Insights from the World's Religious Traditions on the Role of Law and Legal Institutions in Stemming the Worldwide Economic Crisis

The

19th Annual Symposium

Journal of Law and Religion

Thursday evening and Friday, October 15 and 16, 2009

Hamline University School of Law

St. Paul, MN

Our sincere thanks to Fordham School of Law, Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer's Work for co-sponsorship of this event.

Keynote speaker: Luigino Bruni, winner of the 2008 Templeton Enterprise Awards second prize, Associate Professor of Political Economy at University of Milan-Bicocca, and author of Reciprocity, Altruism and Civil Society (2008); Civil Happiness: Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective (2007); A Handbook on the Economics of Happiness (with Porta and Elgar, 2007)

"Toward an Economy of Communion"

  Panels On:

1. The Contribution of the Religious Traditions to Framing Legal Responses to the Global Economic Crisis
2. Human Rights Traditions, Economic Need and the Common Good
3. Regulating Markets Through Law and the Religious Traditions
4. Religion, Culture and Law: How Local Communities Respond to Economic Need and Opportunity, A World View

See our Full Program of Presentations

Meet the Presenters 

Registration 

5.5 CLE credits being applied for from the Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education