Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/14/2025
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
George Watts Hill Alumni Center, University of North Carolina
On November 14, 2025, the First Amendment Law Review will present a symposium on “The Supreme Court’s Ever-Changing Religion Clause Jurisprudence: The Cases of the 2024-2025 Term.”
Join us at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill as we dive into the Supreme Court’s most recent religion clause cases. We are excited to host some of the nation’s leading First Amendment scholars and practitioners.
Keynote Address (1:00-1:45 P.M.):
- Douglas Laycock, Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Virginia School of Law
Panel 1: Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond (9:00–10:30 A.M.)
(Moderated by David Ardia, Reef C. Ivey II Excellence Fund Term Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Media Law and Policy, UNC School of Law)
- Nicole Garnett, Associate Dean for External Engagement and John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
- Jessie Hill, Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law and Director, Reproductive Rights Law Initiative, Case Western Reserve University
- Nathan Chapman, Associate Dean for Faculty Development & A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Law, University of Georgia
- Michael Helfand, Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law and Religion and Co-Director Nootbaar Institute for Law Religion and Ethics, Pepperdine University
Panel 2: Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission (10:45 A.M.–12:15 P.M.)
(Moderated by Melissa Rogers, Distinguished Scholar in Residence in Faith, Law, and Public Policy, Wake Forest University)
- Christopher Lund, Professor of Law, Wayne State University
- Richard Katskee, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Appellate Litigation Clinic, Duke Law
- Thomas Berg, James L. Oberstar Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of St. Thomas
- Laura Portuondo, Assistant Professor, University of Houston Law Center
Panel 3: Mahmoud v. Taylor (2:00–3:30 P.M.)
(Moderated by Daniel Rice, Assistant Professor of Law, UNC School of Law)
- Stephanie Barclay, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
- Mary-Rose Papandrea, Burchfield Professor of First Amendment and Free Speech Law, George Washington University
- Frederick Gedicks, Emeriti Faculty, BYU Law
- John Meiser, Associate Clinical Professor and Director, Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic, University of Notre Dame
For more information, please visit the First Amendment Law Review.
This event is free and open to the public.
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