
SYMPOSIUM THE LEGACY OF JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY FOR LAW AND POLITICS Friday, September 16, 2005 Connelly Center Main Campus
8:30 a.m.	Welcome
		Mark A. Sargent, Dean, School of Law
8:45-10:00	PANEL I: MURRAY AND CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ETHICS IN AMERICA
		Michael J. Baxter, C.S.C. Should the Catholic Worker Ever Go to Court? Notes By an Anarchist on Murray's Conception of the Law, Politics, the State and Religious Freedom Thomas Berg Natural Law and Christian Realism: John Courtney Murray and Reinhold Niebuhr Comments Patrick McKinley Brennan
10:00-10:15	BREAK
10:15-12:00	PANEL II: MURRAY AND AMERICAN LAW
		Robert J. Araujo, S.J. The Role of International Law in United States Constitutional Law: A Question That Might be Proposed by John Courtney Murray – Is It Really Law? Richard W. Garnett John Courtney Murray on the “Freedom of the Church” Susan Stabile Murray and the Abortion Debate Comments Kathleen Brady Mark A. Sargent
12:00-2:00	KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND LUNCHEON
		The Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr.
2;00-3:30	PANEL III: MURRAY AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
		William Gould John Courtney Murray, the Liberal Tradition and American Democracy: Can American Catholics Serve as a Creative Minority in the 21^st Century? Kenneth Grasso The “Fundamental Ambiguity” of Modern Times: John Courtney Murray on Catholicism, Modernity and the American Proposition. Comments Jeanne Heffernan
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