Volume 6 Number 1
| October 2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Greetings!
The 2012-2013 academic year is off and running with a new slate of international scholars joining us as visitors, the launch of our "Rights of the Needy" lecture series, and the announcement of a McDonald grant that will fund a new lecture series featuring the world's premier Christian scholars.
Our visiting scholars travel from Australia, Iran, the Netherlands, and Spain to join us in our work in Catholic and Christian jurisprudence, the rights of children, and comparative law. We're delighted and honored to be serving with them; you can find out more about them in the article below.
Well-timed with the contentious welfare state issues being debated by U.S. presidential candidates, Emory law professor Barbara Bennett Woodhouse delivered a groundbreaking lecture last month on the rights of children. She outlined the role of a society in building resilient children and ultimately resilient adults and well-functioning communities. A summary of her lecture, "Blessing Vulnerability, Building Resilience: Children, Church, and Community," is detailed below, along with a link to her lecture video.
We are grateful to our dear friend Ambassador Alonzo L. McDonald and his Agape Foundation for a new grant that allows us to bring to our lectern a range of Christian viewpoints on the issues of law, politics, and society. The McDonald Distinguished Faculty Lectures on Christian Scholarship begins in the fall of 2013 and calls on the wisdom of a dozen McDonald Distinguished Professors in the United States and the United Kingdom. The specifics are outlined in this newsletter.We wish you a productive and enlightening fall semester! Sincerely,
  |
|
|
|
|
|
 | |
Woodhouse
|
Woodhouse Calls for Society to Build Resilient Citizens
Days before it became public that U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney had criticized 47 percent of Americans as being "dependent on the government," Emory Law Professor Barbara Woodhouse espoused the role society should play in helping citizens build resilience. READ MORE I VIEW LECTURE
|
 | | McDonald |
Top Christian Scholars Headline New Lecture Series
CSLR has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the McDonald Agape Foundation to create a new lecture series designed to showcase the world's preeminent Christian scholars of law, politics, and society. The McDonald Distinguished Faculty Lectures on Christian Scholarship begins in the fall of 2013. READ MORE
|
 | | Alexander |
Alexander Shares Lessons of U.S. Foreclosure Crisis
CSLR Founding Director Frank S. Alexander offered lessons learned from the U.S. mortgage foreclosure crisis to a global audience of policymakers and activists during the U.N. Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) in Naples, Italy, in early September. READ MORE
|
 | | Domingo |
|
International Line-Up of Faculty
Join CSLR for 2012-2013
CSLR welcomes several visiting professors over the course of the 2012-2013 academic year: Rafael Domingo, University of Navarra Law School; Michael Welker, University of Heidelberg; Patrick Parkinson, University of Sydney; and Seyed Noori, Mofid University. READ MORE
|
|
 New Book Seeks to Resurrect a Christian Political Theology With a U.S. Presidential election rapidly approaching, political pundits and politicians are spending considerable time addressing the role of religion and religious principals in governing the nation. Yet there are many who argue that theological discourse concerning the state is no longer valuable. READ MORE |
 | | Berman |
Collection of Berman Papers Now Open for Research
The Harold J. Berman Papers, a collection of professional and personal papers from the life of Emory's first Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, is now open for research at Emory's Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library. READ MORE
|
 | | Jordan |
CSLR Senior Fellow Update
CSLR Senior Fellow Mark Jordan has joined the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis as a Distinguished Professor in the Humanities. CSLR Senior Fellow Johan van der Vyer was recently designated an A-level researcher by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. READ MORE
|
 | | Nichols |
CSLR Alumni, Student Update
Joel Nichols (JD/MDiv '00) has been promoted to full professor. Sharon Tan (JD/MTS '91; PhD '00) was recently awarded tenure. Amanda Baker (JD/MTS candidate) was awarded the David R. Blumenthal Award for best graduate paper from the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies. READ MORE
|
 Find Us on Facebook! CSLR has a redesigned Facebook page, new Twitter feed, and dozens of lecture videos now available on YouTube and iTunes University so that you can access our information whenever you need it from wherever you are located. READ MORE |
CSLR 'In the News'
CSLR scholars were featured prominently in the media recently, particularly Michael J. Broyde's candidacy to become the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Frank Alexander's comments on the housing mortgage crisis, and Richard Garnett's opinions on the healthcare reform contraception debate. READ MORE
|
 The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness
Scholars of the social sciences have devoted increasing attention of late to the concept of human happiness, mainly from sociological and psychological perspectives. This groundbreaking volume, which includes 12 essays from scholars of the New Testament, the Old Testament, systematic theology, practical theology, and counseling psychology, poses a new and exciting question: what is happiness according to the Bible? This publication is an outcome of the Pursuit of Happiness Project. READ MORE
|
|
 The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy
Aristotle Papanikolaou
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2012)
Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. This book argues that a political theology grounded in the principle of divine-human communion must be one that unequivocally endorses a political community that is democratic in a way that structures itself around the modern liberal principles of freedom of religion, the protection of human rights, and church-state separation. This project is a product of the Christian Jurisprudence II Project. READ MORE
|
|
|
| E-mail cslr@law.emory.edu if you would like to receive information about our upcoming lectures on "The Rights of the Needy." |
Stay up to date on CSLR news, lectures, and videos
|
Emory and CSLR digital assets are available via iTunes
--for free. Connect now.
|
"The measure of a society's worth is not in the survival of the strongest and most powerful--they will always be with us. Instead, true worth is measured by the flourishing of the smallest, weakest, and most vulnerable."
Barbara Woodhouse
Don S. Browning Lecture
September 2012
|
|
Request CSLR's new Fall 2012 "At a Glance" brochure. It provides information on our degree programs, research projects, distinguished lectures, recent publications, and more.
|
Search CSLR's faculty to find an expert in human rights; the pursuit of happiness; history of marriage law; Islamic, Jewish, and Christian law; religious liberty; and much more. |
Help us sustain our mission with your generosity.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
