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Podcasts from the St. John's Law School Center for Law and Religion

    Legal Spirits 054: Is Classical Law Due for a Comeback?

    Legal Spirits 054: Is Classical Law Due for a Comeback?

    Recently, many people have been talking about classical law–specifically whether classical law, with its focus on Christian universals and natural law concepts, can make a comeback in American law schools. Will classical law have traction in an academy dominated by positivism, law-and-economics, and critical theories? Would it be a good thing if it did? We’re…

    • 32 min
    Legal Spirits 053: Tom Berg on Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age

    Legal Spirits 053: Tom Berg on Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age

    Welcome back! In our first Legal Spirits episode of the academic year, we interview our friend, law professor Tom Berg (University of St. Thomas) about his new book, Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age. We explore how fights about religious liberty both reflect and contribute to the deep social division in the US today–but also…

    • 40 min
    Legal Spirits 052: SCOTUS Decides Groff and 303 Creative

    Legal Spirits 052: SCOTUS Decides Groff and 303 Creative

    In our traditional end-of-term wrap up, Marc and Mark discuss the Supreme Court’s decisions in two cases: Groff v. DeJoy, the Title VII religious accommodations case, and 303 Creative v. Elenis, the website designer case. Were these simple cases masquerading as complicated ones? Do they suggest the Court is rethinking its views on free speech,…

    • 32 min
    Legal Spirits 051: The Biden Administration’s Guidance on Prayer in Public Schools

    Legal Spirits 051: The Biden Administration’s Guidance on Prayer in Public Schools

    In this episode, Marc and Mark offer some thoughts about the Biden Administration Department of Education’s guidance issued earlier this month (the first since 2020) on prayer and religious expression in public schools. The new guidance largely avoids much discussion of the newest Supreme Court decision on the matter, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, and…

    • 29 min
    Legal Spirits 050: Groff v. DeJoy and Religious Accommodation in the Workplace

    Legal Spirits 050: Groff v. DeJoy and Religious Accommodation in the Workplace

    In this episode, Marc and Mark discuss the background and recent oral argument before the Supreme Court in Groff v. DeJoy, a case about religious accommodation in the workplace under Title VII. The case involves a postal worker who observes Sunday sabbath and who was disciplined by the United States Postal Service after a dispute…

    • 29 min
    Legal Spirits 049: A Canticle for Leibowitz & After Virtue

    Legal Spirits 049: A Canticle for Leibowitz & After Virtue

    In this podcast, Marc and Mark discuss some of the common themes in two books that we recently read and reflected on with our students in the Center’s Reading Society: Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz and Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. The themes include the nature and value…

    • 28 min

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stegj ,

Excellent podcast

Thanks for your recent review of the Carson and Kennedy cases. Always enlightening.

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