The IDEAS seminar presents: Education, religion, and the Supreme Court
Please join us for a special event:
The Interdisciplinary Dialogue in Education for Aspiring Scholars (IDEAS) seminar provides a space for interdisciplinary dialogues on key intellectual issues and core questions in education from diverse perspectives.
Over the past few years, the Supreme Court has handed down a number of rulings about religion that are poised to alter the landscape of American education. Join us in a conversation exploring how these rulings are reshaping American public education and redefining the relationship between church and state.
Thursday, February 26
12 - 1pm
Graduate School of Education, Raikes Building, 4th Floor: Longview
507 Lasuen Mall, Stanford
Lunch to be provided! RSVP today to indicate your preferences.
Speakers
Bernadette Meyler
Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life
Stanford Law School
Bernadette Meyler, JD ’03 is a scholar of British and American constitutional law and of law and the humanities. Her research and teaching bring together the sometimes surprisingly divided fields of legal history and law and literature. She also examines the long history of constitutionalism, reaching back into the English common law ancestry of the U.S. Constitution, and explores the implications of this history for how the Constitution should be understood today. After receiving her BA in Literature with a focus on Classics at Harvard University, Professor Meyler obtained her JD from Stanford Law School and completed a PhD in English at UC, Irvine.
James A. Sonne
Professor of Law
Director of the Religious Liberty Clinic
Stanford Law School
Jim Sonne is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founding director of its Religious Liberty Clinic, the leading and only full-time academic program in the country where students can learn the practice and profession of law through supervised litigation in that field. He is an experienced and award-winning teacher, practitioner, and scholar, with particular expertise in law and religion issues. Sonne earned his BA with honors from Duke University and his JD with honors from Harvard Law School.
Moderator
Ari Y. Kelman
Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Ari Kelman's research focuses on the forms and practices of religious knowledge transmission. He holds a specific research interest in American Jewry. In addition to leading the IDEAS seminar, Kelman directs the Undergraduate Honors in Education Thesis Program at the GSE as well as other university roles. He received his BA in sociology from UC Santa Cruz and a PhD in American Studies from New York University.
