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AALS Hot Topic Program
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  • January 4, 2019
    8:30 am - 10:15 am
    Event: 2019 Annual Meeting
    Session Type: AALS Hot Topic Programs
    Session Capacity: N/A
    Hotel: Hilton New Orleans Riverside
    Room: Grand Salon Section 10
    Floor: First Floor
    Should the government be able to provide religious exemptions when they result in harm to third-parties? This question is particularly weighty at this moment in American history when religious exemptions have perhaps never been more controversial. In light of recent Supreme Court cases like Hobby Lobby and Masterpiece Cakeshop, some scholars have advanced new theories that would place strict limits on government’s ability to grant religious exemptions that result in harm (or externalities) to third parties who do not benefit from that religious practice. This program will explore the historical, theoretical, normative, and doctrinal arguments for and against a rule that would prohibit religious exemptions that result in more than de minimis harm to identifiable third parties.
Session Speakers
Stephanie Barclay
Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
Speaker
Frederick Mark Gedicks
Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
Speaker
Christopher C. Lund
Wayne State University Law School
Speaker
Amy Sepinwall
The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department
Speaker
Nelson Tebbe
Brooklyn Law School
Speaker
Robin Fretwell Wilson
University of Illinois College of Law
Moderator
Session Fees
  • [4115] AALS Hot Topic Program - Religious Exemptions and Harm to Third Parties: $0.00