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July 6, 2008: For The Establishment Of Religion: Where Are We Now?, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “For the Establishment of Religion: Where Are We Now?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

July 3, 2008: Having It Both Ways On Faith-Based Providers, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Having it Both Ways on Faith-Based Providers“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 28, 2008: The Kennedy Court On Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Kennedy Court on Religion“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

June 26, 2008: Something Incoherent About Barack Obama, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Something Incoherent About Barack Obama“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Presidential Debates And Deliberative Democracy, Charles W. Collier

UF Law Faculty Publications

Consider democracy in America through the lens of the presidential debates. It is not a pretty picture. From a high point in the nineteenth century (for example, the lengthy Lincoln-Douglas Senate campaign debates of 1858) a declining trajectory can be traced to the present day, with a marked acceleration in the Age of Television. To our polity's discredit, the presidential debate has long since ceased to be a dialogue that might shed light on the candidates' true powers of deliberation. The key to reversing this long decline, I believe, lies in an unlikely place: in the structural features of the …

June 14, 2008: Senator Obama's Prayer Group, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Senator Obama's Prayer Group“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Agenda: Shifting Baselines And New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, And The Transformation Of The American West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)

The Center’s 29th annual conference will focus on the changes in the West resulting from rapid population growth, development, disrupted historical weather patterns and the effects of those changes on land, water, and energy resources. Speakers and panelists will address the adaptability of the legal and political institutions and how the transformation of the West may foreshadow fundamental changes to these institutions.

The agenda includes panel discussions that will address:

• Water for the 21^st Century —the big questions in Western water and rethinking Western water law.
• The Future of Energy —practical and sophisticated solutions to overcome the energy …

May 21, 2008: For The Establishment Of Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “For the Establishment of Religion “ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

May 13, 2008: The Future Of Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Future of Secularism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

May 8, 2008: Church-State Talk To Pittsburgh Aclu, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Church-State Talk to Pittsburgh ACLU“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Exploring The Impact Of The Marriage Amendments: Can Public Employers Offer Domestic Partner Benefits To Their Gay And Lesbian Employees?, Tiffany C. Graham

Working Paper Series

The article focuses on an issue that is shaping up to be the new front in the same-sex marriage wars: whether applying the terms of the more broadly-constructed amendments to public employers will bar them from offering domestic partner benefits to their gay and lesbian employees. The first part of the article offers an overview of domestic partner benefits plans and discusses the manner in which they are currently being threatened by the more broadly-constructed marriage amendments. The second part takes a close look at the litigation in National Pride at Work v. Michigan. This case represents the first time …

April 22, 2008: The Power To Change The World, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Power to Change the World

April 16, 2008: Global Warming And Carbon Taxes, Bruce Ledewitz

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Global Warming and Carbon Taxes

April 14, 2008: Senator Barack Obama's San Francisco Comments, Bruce Ledewitz

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Senator Barack Obama's San Francisco Comments

April 2, 2008: Death And Resurrection, Bruce Ledewitz

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Death and Resurrection

March 31, 2008: What's Wrong With Progressive Religion?, Bruce Ledewitz

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What's Wrong with Progressive Religion?

March 29, 2008: Secularists And Tibet, Bruce Ledewitz

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Secularists and Tibet

March 21, 2008: March Atlantic Monthly And The Influence Of Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

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March Atlantic Monthly and the Influence of Religion

March 15, 2008: Senator Obama Doesn't Get The Pennsylvania Primary, Bruce Ledewitz

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Senator Obama Doesn't Get the Pennsylvania Primary

March 11, 2008: The Democratic Party Turns To Religion, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Democratic Party Turns to Religion

March 7, 2008: Progressive Religion And Hallowed Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Progressive Religion and Hallowed Secularism

Unconscious Bias And The 2008 Presidential Election, Gregory S. Parks, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The 2008 presidential campaign and election will be historic. It marks the first time a Black person (Barack Obama) and a woman (Hillary Clinton) have a real chance at winning the Presidency. Their viability as candidates symbolizes significant progress in overcoming racial and gender stereotypes in America. But closer analysis of the campaigns reveals that race and gender have placed enormous constraints on how these two Senators can run their candidacy. This is not surprising in light of the history of race and gender in voting and politics in America. But what is perhaps more surprising is how the campaigns …

March 4, 2008: Anne Lamott, Bruce Ledewitz

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Anne Lamott

February 28, 2008: Abortion And Gay Marriage, Bruce Ledewitz

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Abortion and Gay Marriage

February 22, 2008: Amy Sullivan--The Party Faithful: How And Why Democrats Are Closing The God Gap, Bruce Ledewitz

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Amy Sullivan--The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap

Fbruary 16, 2008: How Secularists Knocked Down The Wall Of Separation Between Church And State, Bruce Ledewitz

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How Secularists Knocked Down the Wall of Separation Between Church and State

February 12, 2008 More On E.J. Dionne Jr., Bruce Ledewitz

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More on E.J. Dionne Jr.

Book Review: Justice In Robes By Ronald Dworkin (2006), Dan Priel

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Since the 1960's Ronald Dworkin has been arguing for a particular account of law that he believed was both explanatorily superior to the one offered by competing theories, and also the basis for normative arguments for producing right answers to legal questions. Justice in Robes collects Dworkin's most recent essays on this subject and thus provides the appropriate opportunity for assessing the legal theory of one of the more influential legal philosophers. In this Review I seek to offer a clearer account than appears in the book itself of Dworkin's project, and in this way offer a measured assessment of …

February 11, 2008: Religious Talk Is Not Enough To Close The God Gap, Bruce Ledewitz

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Religious Talk is not Enough to Close the God Gap

January 29, 2008: Randall Balmer On Fresh Air, Bruce Ledewitz

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Randall Balmer on Fresh Air