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Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics

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MARCH 11 – 12, 2016 PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

MALIBU, CALIFORNIA

HERBERT & ELINOR NOOTBAAR

Wonderful friends of Pepperdine, Herb and Elinor Nootbaar generously endowed the Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics in 2007. Residents of Laguna Beach, California, they have had fascinating life stories of hard work, perseverance, continuing success in the feed and grain industry, strong religious faith, and devotion to the community.

Herb and Elinor’s extraordinary gift enables law students to work with human rights and religious freedom organizations around the world, as well as to study the relationship between law, religion, and ethics. In March of 2011, we mourned the death of our beloved Elinor; in November of 2015, we celebrated Herb’s 107th birthday.

JOIN US FOR A TOUR OF THE MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE! Thursday, March 10th, at 2:00PM

Conference attendees are invited to take part in a private tour of the Museum of Tolerance. This museum “is a human rights laboratory and educational center dedicated to challenging visitors to understand the holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts and confront all forms of prejudice and discrimination in our world today.” For more information, and to sign up for the tour, please contact [email protected].

MINIMUM CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION

This symposium has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit by the State Bar of California for 12 credit hours. Pepperdine University School of Law certifies that this activity conforms to the standard for approved education activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.

ROBERT F. COCHRAN, JR.

Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Director, Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics Pepperdine University School of Law

MICHAEL HELFAND

Associate Professor of Law Pepperdine School of Law Associate Director, Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies Pepperdine University

Justice is a central theme in most secular and religious moral traditions, though there are significant disagreements about its content. As Alasdair McIntyre asked, “Whose Justice?” During some periods of history there has been great optimism that the world was moving in a more just direction, generally followed by periods of great injustice and great disillusionment.

Our conference themes have ancient roots—“do justice” (Micah 6:8) and “do no harm” (Hippocrates). The first theme is a call to do justice and to serve a hurting world. What do our traditions say about justice to the 21st century? What are the great injustices and causes of suffering in our world? How might they be addressed by individuals, religious congregations, NGOs, and governments?

A second theme (raised powerfully in Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert’s book When Helping Hurts) will be how individuals, groups, and laws might avoid doing harm as we attempt to do good. Attempts to help can generate dependence or harm bystanders. The work of governments and NGOs can undercut local institutions like religious congregations and businesses that might address local problems. Laws can have unintended consequences that do greater harm than good. Protections afforded some groups, may harm other groups. We need to make a difference, but to do so wisely.

Please join us for the conversation.

All our best,

8 AM Registration and Light Breakfast

8:30 – 8:45 AM Welcome and Conference Introduction Robert Cochran

8:45 AM SESSION 1 – Doing Justice Rabbi Elliot Dorff, American Jewish University A Jewish Perspective on Social Justice

Gary Haugen, International Justice Mission Ending Impunity: The Indispensable (and Most Intimidating) Challenge Facing the Global Poor Today

10 – 10:15 AM Snack Bar and Refreshments

10:15 AM SESSION 2 – Responses to Poverty Michael J. Broyde, Emory University School of Law The Giving of Charity in Jewish Law: For What Purpose and Towards What Goal?

Ahmed Taha, Pepperdine University School of Law Islamic Approaches to Poverty

Latonia Haney Keith, Concordia University School of Law Poverty, the Great Unequalizer: Improving Access to Justice for the Poor

11:45 AM SESSION 3 – Self Harm Peter Greer, President and CEO, HOPE International The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good

12:15 – 1:30 PM Lunch (Atrium)

1:30 PM SESSION 4 – Avoiding Harm Brian Fikkert, Covenant College, Tennessee, and the Chalmers Center When Helping Hurts

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2:15 – 5:30 PM EXTENDED SESSIONS 5A AND 5B (choose one)

SESSION 5A – Doing Justice and Avoiding Harm on the Front Lines Non-Governmental Organization Presentations by Various Representatives

Saving Innocence Kim Biddle, Founder and Executive Director Saving Innocence is at the front lines of the fight against child sex trafficking domestically.

Pepperdine Legal Aid Clinic Brittany Stringfellow Otey, Director Pepperdine’s Legal Aid Clinic at Union Rescue Mission provides practical training for law students and direct legal assistance to those experiencing homelessness on Los Angeles’ skid row.

Sole2Soul Homeless Outreach, Saddleback Church, Jim Black, Cofounder Sole2Soul reaches out to homeless men and women and shares with them that God loves them unconditionally.

Pepperdine Global Justice Program Jim Gash, Director Global Justice on the Ground in Real Time

3:45 – 4 PM Coffee and Tea ALARM Leah Boyd, Director of Justice Initiatives ALARM is an African-led and African-based organization that focuses on equipping leaders with the skills and knowledge needed to truly transform their communities.

Bridgeway Foundation Shannon Sedgwick Davis, CEO Bridgeway is a catalyst for hope and reconciliation throughout the world, working toward the prevention of oppression, genocide, and human rights violations.

Lifewater International Justin Narducci, President and CEO Lifewater serves around the world to end water-borne diseases by providing access to safe water sources and educating communities on hygiene and sanitation.

The Chalmers Center Brian Fikkert, Executive Director What Good is the Local Church in Poverty Alleviation?

5:30 PM Hors d’oeuvres Reception

SESSION 5B – Religious Freedom and Third-Party Harms Douglas NeJaime, UCLA School of Law Conscience and the Culture Wars: Complicity, Third- Party Harm, and Limits on Religious Accommodation

Richard W. Garnett, Notre Dame Law School Harms, Dignity, and Religious Accommodations

Chad W. Flanders, Saint Louis University Whose Complicity? Which Accommodation? When Conscience Cuts Both Ways

3:45 – 4 PM Coffee and Tea Fred Gedicks, Brigham Young University Substantial Burdens: How Courts May (and Why They Must) Judge Burdens on Religion

Mark S. Scarberry Strategic Targeting of Sincere Religious Complicity Claims: You Don’t Know What Your Religion Requires

Nathan S. Chapman, University of Georgia What We Talk About When We Talk About Religious Accommodations

Michael D. Peabody, Partner, Bradford and Barthel, LLP Seeking Peaceful Solutions When Accommodating You Doesn’t Accommodate Me

5:30 PM Hors d’oeuvres Reception

FRIDAY, MARCH 11

8 AM Light Breakfast

8:45 AM SESSION 6 – Love and Justice Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University The Just Limits of Love

9:30 AM SESSION 7 – Criminal Law Barbara E. Armacost, University of Virginia School of Law Restorative Justice

Timothy W. Floyd, Mercer University School of Law Rethinking the Relationship Between Justice and Mercy: Toward Repairing America’s Excessively Punitive Criminal Justice System

Sara M. R. Cravens, University of Akron School of Law Active Justice: Transformative and Restorative Models for Everyday Judging

10:45– 11 AM Snack Bar and Refreshments

11 AM SESSION 8 – Race Richard H. Sander, UCLA School of Law Functional and Dysfunctional Strategies on Race

Jennifer Lee Koh, Western State College School of Law Immigration Law and Policy Through the Lens of the Gospel and Grace

Brad Areheart, Tennessee Symmetry and the Design of Antidiscrimination Law

12:15 – 1:45 PM Lunch

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1:45 – 3 PM SESSIONS 9A AND 9B (choose one)

SESSION 9A Rethinking Justice and Substantive Law: Torts, Tax, and Intellectual Property Mildred Wigfall Robinson, University of Virginia, School of Law Is it Possible to Reconcile Economic Expansion, Altruism, and Effective Participatory Public Education Through Tax Systems?

David W. Opderbeck Seton Hall University, School of Law A Critique of Positivist Intellectual Property

Paul J. Zwier Emory University School of Law Tort Law in a Postmodern Age: A Christian Perspective

Amy J. Uelmen Georgetown Law School The Legal and Moral Obligations of Bystanders to a Victim in Need of Emergency Assistance: Theorizing the Harm

3:00 – 3:15 PM Coffee and Tea

SESSION 9B International Justice Morse Tan, Northern Illinois University College of Law The Most Unjust Country on Earth: North Korea as a State of Rightlessness

Robert L. Ballard, Pepperdine University Seaver College Intercountry Adoption: Always the Best Choice for the Child?

Stacy A. Scaldo, Florida Coastal School of Law In the Name of Dignity: Misguided Justice and Disregarded Harm in Modern Abortion Theory—A Comparative Perspective

Geetanjali Shahi and Apurva Sharma, Hidayatullah National Law University, Chhattisgarh, India The Relationship Between Justice and Love and the Law of India

3:00 – 3:15 PM Coffee and Tea

3:15 – 4:30 PM SESSIONS 10A AND 10B (choose one)

SESSION 10A Religion and Law Kif Augustine – Adams, Brigham Young University School of Law Religious Exemptions to Title IX

Bryan T. McGraw, Wheaton College In Defense of Smith-RFRA: Religious Liberty, Political Toleration, and Moral Judgment

Barbara Massie Mouly, Liberty University School of Law Effects of Recognition of Sharia Law in United States Courts

Shoudong Zhang, China University of Political Science and Law Justice Kennedy, Confucius, and Gay Marriage

SESSION 10B Western Concepts of Law and Justice Eric G. Enlow, Handong University School of Law The Three Justinian Precepts of Jus (Live Honorably, Harm No One, Give to Each His Own)

Randy Beck, University of Georgia School of Law God’s Justice Is Better Than Ours

Zachary R. Calo Catholic Social Thought and the Limits of Justice

David VanDrunen, Westminster Seminary California The Relationship of Natural Law and Human Law

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM SESSION 11 Teaching Law Students to Love Justice Larry O. Gantt II and Lynn Marie Kohm, Regent University School of Law

Timothy W. Floyd, Mercer University School of Law

Barbara E. Armacost, University of Virginia School of Law

SATURDAY, MARCH 12

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Brad Areheart is an associate professor of law at the University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Law. He is the chair-elect for the AALS Employment Discrimination section. He writes in the areas of disability rights and antidiscrimination theory. His recent articles in this area have been published in the University of Chicago Law Review (2014), University of Michigan Law Review (2015), and George Washington Law Review (2015).

Barbara E. Armacost is a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she earned her JD. Prior to law school she served as a nurse and earned a master’s degree in theological studies from Regent College at the University of British Columbia. After law school she clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and served as attorney adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Kif Augustine-Adams is the Charles E. Jones Professor and R. Wayne Hansen Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University where she served as associate dean for research and academic affairs from 2008 to 2013. During the 2013-2014 academic year, she was named the Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at Renmin University Law School in Beijing, China.

Robert L. “Bert” Ballard is an associate professor at Pepperdine University, researches identify and family issues related to intercountry adoption. He is coeditor of The Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues Across Disciplines (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015) (with Goodno, Cochran, and Milbrandt).

Randy Beck is the Justice Thomas O. Marshall Chair of Constitutional Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. He clerked for Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. He has written numerous law review articles and essays and is the coauthor with David VanDrunen of “Genesis and the Civil Law” in Law and the Bible (Cochran and VanDrunen, eds., IVP, 2014).

Kim Biddle is the founder and executive director of Saving Innocence, a 501c(3) nonprofit that provides rescue and rehabilitation to child victims of sex trafficking in the United States. She received her BS in education and master of social work degrees from USC. She has received multiple awards for her abolitionist work and has been featured as a subject matter expert on NPR, ABC, CBS and KTLA News. This past year, she was honored as one of L.A. Weekly’s 2015 People of the Year, naming her “The Human Shield.”

Jim Black is a volunteer homeless outreach leader at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, and a physical medicine and a rehabilitation professional of 27 years. His personal story is one of incredible transformation starting from a broken home at the age of 9. In 2005 he was baptized, immersed his life into serving, and in 2012 asked God to take his life and use it for God’s will. Sole2Soul Homeless Outreach desires to reach the homeless men and women in their community and share with them the love of God.

Leah Boyd joined ALARM (African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries) in 2012 as director of justice initiatives to oversee and coordinate ALARM’s justice programs. She received her law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law in Virginia, where she was a member of the law review. She received her BA in political science, summa cum laude, from Azusa Pacific University in California. She is admitted to practice in Texas, Kansas, and several federal courts.

Michael J. Broyde is a professor of law at Emory Law and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law Religion at Emory University. He clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Broyde is ordained (yoreh yoreh ve-yadin yadin) as a rabbi by Yeshiva University and was a member (dayan) of the Beth Din of America, the largest Jewish law court in America.

Zachary R. Calo is a research scholar in law and religion at the Valparaiso University School of Law. He holds a JD from the University of Virginia, a BA and MA from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published over 40 articles on law and religion.

Nathan S. Chapman is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia School of Law. He previously served as the executive director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Belmont University, his master’s degree from Duke Divinity School, and his law degree from Duke School of Law.

Robert F. Cochran, Jr. is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Pepperdine University and the director of the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics. His books include Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (Yale University Press) (with Michael McConnell and Angela Carmella); Faith and Law (NYU Press); Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy, and Legal Institutions (IVP) (with David VanDrunen).

Sara M. R. Cravens is an associate professor, assistant dean for global engagement, and director of faculty research and development at the University of Akron School of Law. She received her AB, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, her MPhil from Cambridge University, and her JD, magna cum laude, from Washington and Lee University. Her areas of interest include the judicial role, legal ethics, and theology and law.

Shannon Sedgwick Davis is CEO of the Bridgeway Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Bridgeway Capital Management, Inc. An attorney, Shannon is a passionate advocate for social justice and International human rights. She is a well-known strategist engaged in promoting peace and ending human atrocities across our globe. She previously served as vice president of Geneva Global and director of public affairs at International Justice Mission.

Rabbi Elliot Dorff is American Jewish University’s rector and the Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy. For more than 30 years, he has taught a course on Jewish law at UCLA School of Law. He was awarded the Journal of Law and Religion’s Lifetime Achievement Award and holds three honorary doctoral degrees. He served on the editorial committee of Etz Hayim, the new Torah commentary for the Conservative Movement.

Eric Enlow is the dean and a professor of law of Handong International Law School (HILS), a Christian Law School in South Korea, which focuses on U.S. and international law. He received his BA from Yale University and his JD, Order of the Coif, from Washington University School of Law. He then clerked for the Hon. Richard S. Arnold at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He subsequently practiced international intellectual property and appellate law until joining HILS in 2004.

Brian Fikkert is a professor of economics and community development and the founder and president of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College. He is coauthor of the best-selling book When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor ... and Yourself. He earned a PhD in economics from Yale University, specializing in international economics and economic development.

Chad W. Flanders has been an associate professor at Saint Louis University School of Law faculty since 2009. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2004 and his law degree from Yale Law School in 2007. After law school, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Warren Matthews on the Alaska Supreme Court and the Hon. Michael McConnell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Timothy W. Floyd is Tommy Malone Distinguished Chair in Trial Advocacy and director of experiential education at Mercer University School of Law. He has published two books and is the author of numerous articles in the area of legal ethics, law and religion, and criminal law and the death penalty. He is the coeditor of the book Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer?

Larry O. “Natt” Gantt II is professor, director of academic success and advising, and director of the Center for Ethical Formation and Legal Education Reform at Regent University School of Law. He received his AB in psychology and political science, summa cum laude, from Duke University; his JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School; and his MDiv, summa cum laude, from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor and concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame School of Law. His book, Two There Are: Understanding the Separation of Church and State, will be published by Cambridge University Press. He clerked for the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court.

James A. Gash is the director of the Global Justice Program and professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edith H. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Since January of 2012, he has served as specialist advisor to the Ugandan High Court.

Professor Fred Gedicks has held the Guy Anderson Chair at Brigham Young University School of Law since 2005. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Church and State: A Critical Analysis of Religion Clause Jurisprudence (Duke University Press, 1995), and Choosing the Dream: The Future of Religion in American Public Life (Greenwood Press, 1991) (with Roger Hendrix).

Naomi Harlin Goodno is codirector of Byrne Judicial Clerkship Institute and associate professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law. She is a graduate of Princeton University and UC Berkeley School of Law and clerked for the Honorable Arthur L. Alarcon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is active in working with international human rights organizations.

Peter Greer joined HOPE International in 2004, following extensive education and experience in the field of microfinance. He received a BS in international business from Messiah College, and an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School. He has written seven books among which are: The Poor Will Be Glad (2009) (with Phil Smith), The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good (2013) (with Anna Haggard), and Mission Drift (2014) (with Chris Hors; selected as a 2015 Book Award Winner from Christianity Today).

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Gary Haugen is founder and president of International Justice Mission. His work to protect the poor from violence has been featured by Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, the Guardian. His books include Good News About Injustice (IVP) and The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (Oxford University Press).

Latonia Haney Keith joined the faculty of Concordia University School of Law as the director of clinical education in 2015. She directs Concordia Law’s clinical education program, teaching law students the practice of law through the representation of the disadvantaged and underserved. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was a research assistant to Professor Laurence H. Tribe and Professor Charles Ogletree. She was also an editor of and symposium co-chair for the Harvard Law Review.

Jennifer Lee Koh is a professor of law at Western State College of Law and is the founder and director of the Western State Immigration Clinic. Her scholarship has appeared in the North Carolina Law Review and the Florida Law Review. She received her JD from Columbia University and her BA from Yale University.

Lynne Marie Kohm is professor, associate dean for faculty development and external affairs, and the John Brown McCarty Professor of Family Law at Regent University School of Law. She has coauthored a family law casebook with Lynn D. Wardle and Mark S. Strasser, Family Law from Multiple Perspectives (West 2014). She received her BA from University at Albany, SUNY and her JD from Syracuse University School of Law.

Bryan T. McGraw is an associate professor of politics and international relations at Wheaton College. He finished his PhD at Harvard and is the author of Faith in Politics: Religion in Liberal Political Thought (Cambridge, 2010) and coeditor of Evangelicals and Natural Law (Lexington, 2012). He writes mainly on the intersection between liberal political orders and religious belief and practice.

Barbara Massie Mouly is an associate professor of law at Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Virginia. She earned a BA from the College of William and Mary, a master of music from the University of Maryland, and a JD from George Mason University. After graduating from law school, she clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Her current research compares sharia law to the common law.

Justin Narducci is the fifth President/CEO of Lifewater International, the oldest evangelical water ministry in North America. Prior to leading Lifewater, he served as a vice president of an Africa-based ministry that worked with local churches to meet physical and spiritual needs of street children and slum dwellers. He has an MBA in international management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Douglas NeJaime is a professor of law at UCLA School of Law and faculty director of the Williams Institute. He teaches in the areas of family law, law and sexuality, constitutional law, and legal ethics. He was previously professor of law at UC Irvine School of Law, associate professor of law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and the Sears Law Teaching Fellow at the Williams Institute. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brown University.

David W. Opderbeck is a professor of law and director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science, and Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law. His work focuses on the regulation of access to scientific and technological information. He currently is completing a doctorate in philosophical theology regarding the intersection of neuroscience and the law.

Brittany Stringfellow Otey is the director of Pepperdine’s Legal Aid Clinic and an assistant professor of law. She has directed the Legal Aid Clinic since 2003. The clinic serves individuals struggling with homelessness and poverty, primarily serving those living in the skid row area of Los Angeles. Upon graduation from Pepperdine Law, Otey clerked at the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, before going into private practice in Long Beach, California.

Michael D. Peabody is a partner with Bradford & Barthel LLP in Los Angeles. He writes and speaks frequently on issues involving liberty of conscience and has testified on religious accommodation issues before legislatures in California and Oregon. He maintains the ReligiousLiberty.TV website: http://www.religiousliberty.tv

Camille Gear Rich joined the USC Gould School of Law faculty in the fall of 2007 following five years of private practice. Her research and teaching interests include constitutional law, feminist legal theory, legal ethics, employment discrimination, and children and the law. She graduated with honors from Brown University in 1993. She graduated from Yale Law School in 1998 and was a senior editor on the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.

Mildred Wigfall Robinson is the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She teaches in the area of taxation and is the coeditor with Richard J. Bonnie of Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education (Vanderbilt Press, 2009).

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Richard H. Sander is a professor of law at the UCLA School of Law. His scholarship addresses questions of social and economic inequality. He previously served as a Vista volunteer at the Neighborhood Institute, a community organization on Chicago’s south side and earned degrees in law and economics (MA and PhD) from Northwestern University.

Stacy A. Scaldo is an associate professor of law at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida. She is the current president for the Catholic Lawyers Guild for the Diocese of St. Augustine.

Michael Scaperlanda is the Gene and Elaine Edwards Family Chair in Law at the University of Oklahoma. He teaches comparative common law, constitutional law, immigration law, jurisprudence, and professional responsibility. His books include Immigration Law: A Primer and Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law, coedited by Teresa Collett.

Mark S. Scarberry decided during his first year at UCLA Law School that he wanted to teach law. He graduated first in his class and then joined the Pepperdine law faculty in 1982 after four years’ practice experience with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Los Angeles. His major academic interests are bankruptcy, remedies, legal philosophy, election law, and constitutional law.

Geetanjali Shahi is a fourth-year law student, BA LLB (hons.), at Hidayatullah National Law University in Uparwara Post, Abhanpur, New Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Geetanjali Shahi’s major subject is sociology and hons. subject is corporate law and intellectual property rights.

Apurva Sharma is a fifth-year law student, BA LLB (hons.), at Hidayatullah National Law University in Uparwar Post, Abhanpur, New Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Apurva Sharma’s major subject is political science and hons. subject is constitutional law and intellectual property rights.

Deanell R. Tacha, is the Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean and professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and her JD from the University of Michigan School of Law. She served as chief judge (2001-2007) and has been a circuit judge since 1986 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Dean Tacha has been active in the American Inns of Court movement as a spokesperson for enhanced ethics, professionalism, and civility in the legal profession.

Ahmed Taha is a professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Taha’s research focuses primarily on consumer and investor protection law. This research reflects both his training in law and in economics in which he holds a PhD. Prior to joining the Pepperdine faculty, Taha was a professor at Wake Forest Law School.

Morse Tan recently published a book by Routledge in April 2015 on the security and human rights crises in North Korea. He previously served as a visiting scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and has published in the SMU Law Journal, St. Louis University Law Journal, and Texas International Law Journal.

Amelia J. Uelmen is a visiting lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center. From 2001 until July 2011, she served as the director of the Institute on Religion, Law, and Lawyer’s Work at Fordham University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on Catholic social thought, torts, legal ethics, and legal education.

David VanDrunen is the Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Westminster Seminary California. His books include Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural Law and Law and the Bible (with Robert F. Cochran, Jr.).

Nicholas Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University and Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His books include Justice: Rights and Wrongs (Princeton University Press 2008) and Justice in Love (Eerdmans 2011).

Shoudong Zhang is an associate professor of law at China University of Political Science and Law. He served as Edwards Fellow at Columbia Law School and visiting scholar at Harvard in 2006 and 2007. His focus now is on the interaction of philosophy, law, and religion in traditional China and America, especially as to marriage and the death penalty.

Paul J. Zwier II is a professor of law and the director of the Advocacy Skills Program and the Program for International Advocacy and Dispute Resolution at Emory University. He has taught legal advocacy and dispute resolution around the world, including in Tanzania, Netherlands, Russia, Ecuador, Monrovia, Liberia, Kenya, Ireland, China, and South Africa.

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