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CHARLES J. REID, JR.
School of Law
University of St. Thomas
Minneapolis, MN, 55403
(651) 962-4974 (O)
cjreid@stthomas.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Cornell University (Medieval History), May, 1995
(minor areas include English history to 1689, and early
modern European intellectual history).
M.A. Cornell University, June, 1987.
J.C.L. The Catholic University of America, August,
1985.
J.D. The Catholic University of America, May, 1982.
B.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May, 1978
(majors in Latin, classical civilization, and history).
ACADEMIC AWARDS
Scholarly Engagement and Societal Reform Award, for
contributions to the academic life of the University of
St. Thomas Law School, 2002-2003.
Grants: Travel Grant, World Family Policy Center,
Malaysia Conference on the Family, fall, 2004; NEH
travel grant, October, 1990 (to attend conference on
European ius
commune at Erice,
Sicily); Lane Cooper Foundation award winner, academic
year 1989-1990, Cornell University; Martin McVey trust
fellowship, academic year 1986-1987, Cornell
University; Sage Graduate Fellowship, academic year
1985-1986, Cornell University.
Honors Societies: Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi
(national honors society); Eta Sigma Phi (classics
honors society); Phi Alpha Theta (history honors
society).
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas
School of Law, Minneapolis, MN, fall, 2002 -- present.
Research Associate in Law and History, Emory University
School of Law, 1991 -- present (faculty-level
appointment).
Lecturer in Law, Emory University School of Law,
spring, 2000-2001: Taught course on the constitutional
history
of the Church and canon law, from the early Christian
centuries to the Second Vatican Council.
Lecturer in Law, Cornell University School of Law,
1989, 1991 (taught course on the history of the canon
law of marriage and its relationship to Western
conceptions of marriage and sexuality).
Instructor, International Law Institute, Georgetown
University Law Center, 1984-1994 (taught introductory
summer course on legal research and writing as part of
program on orientation to the American legal system).
Grader, Legal Process, Cornell University School of
Law, 1989-1993. Legal process is a first-year course at
Cornell Law School covering fundamental issues of legal
philosophy.
Freshman seminar instructor, Cornell University, 1988,
1990. Prepared and taught course on the history of
medieval marriage and sexuality as part of Cornell's
freshman writing program).
Teaching assistant, history of Western civilization,
1987-1988, Cornell University.
CANON LAW CONSULTING: Consultant with the Diocese of
Scranton, Pa., on canon-law matters, chiefly involving
the operation of matrimonial tribunals. Official titles
have included defender of the bond and judge.
1986-present.
EXPERT WITNESS AND/OR HISTORICAL CONSULTANT IN
FOLLOWING CASES:
a. O'Bryan
et al. v. The Holy See: Prepared
expert's affidavit on plaintiff's use of canonical
Latin, United States District Court, Western District
of Kentucky. Plaintiff brought suit under Foreign
Sovereign Immunities Act seeking to assert liability of
the Holy See for American pedophilia cases on theory of
respondeat superior and other theories.
b. Prepared expert's affidavit on plaintiff's use of
canonical Latin, Doe v.
The Holy See, U.S.
Federal District Court, Portland, Oregon, 2003-2004.
c. Prepared expert's report on the scope of equity
jurisdiction in the federal courts at the time of the
enactment of Federal Judiciary Act, as part of briefing
of Pollard
v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours &
Co., 532 U.S.
843 (2001).
d. Prepared expert's report and testified at
trial, McGann
v. Village of Old Westbury, in case
involving the history
and law of Catholic burial practice. (spring, 2000).
e. Prepared expert's report in Warner
v. City of Boca Raton, on
history and law of Catholic burial practice. (1999).
BOOKS
Power
over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and
Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law
(Grand
Rapids, MI: William Eerdmans, 2004).
The
Story of Law (authored
forward, prepared annotations and bibliography for the
second edition of this classic work of legal history by
John M. Zane; publication, summer, 1998 by the Liberty
Fund).
Peace in
a Nuclear Age: The Bishops' Pastoral Letter in
Perspective (editor)
(The Catholic University of America Press, 1986).
DISSERTATION: "Rights in Thirteenth-Century Canon Law:
An Historical Investigation" (1995).
ARTICLES
"The Right to Life and Its Application to the Welfare
of Children in the Canon Law and Magisterium of the
Catholic Church: 1878 to the Present,"
Best
Love of the Child (to be
edited by Dr. Timothy Jackson of the Emory University
Department of Theology).
"Marriage: Its Relationship to Religion, Law, and the
State," (forthcoming, Festschrift
in Honor of
Fr. John Lynch, C.S.P.) to be edited by Thomas J. Green
of the Catholic University of America.
"Paulus Vladimiri, the Tractatus,
Opinio Hostiensis, and the
Rights of Infidels," in Sacri
Canones Servandi Sunt, edited by
Pavel Krafl, Institute of History, Czech Academy of
Sciences.
"Procreation," and "Incest," encyclopedia entries
in The
Encyclopedia of Love in the World
Religions, Yehudit
Greenberg, ed. (forthcoming).
"Marriage in the Western Legal Tradition: A Product of
Natural Law or a Creature of the State?" in
The
Family in the New Millenium, volume
II, Marriage
and Human Dignity, Scott
Loveless and Thomas B. Holman, editors (Westport CT:
Praeger, 2007), pp.
3-20.
"Hugo Grotius: A Case of Dubious Paternity,"
The
Green Bag 10 (2d
series, 2006), pp. 109-123.
"The Rights of Children in Medieval Canon Law,"
forthcoming, collection of essays edited by Patrick
Brennan of Villanova School of Law.
"Judicial Precedent in the Late Eighteenth and Early
Nineteenth Centuries: A Commentary on Chancellor
Kent's Commentaries,"
Ave
Maria Law Review 5 (2007)
47-111.
"Edward Douglass White's Use of Roman and Canon Law: A
Study in the Supreme Court's Use of Foreign Legal
Citations," University
of St. Thomas Law Journal 3 (2006)
281-310.
"And the State Makes Three: Should the State Retain a
role in Recognizing Marriage," Cardozo
Law Review 27 (2006),
pp. 1277-1307.
"The Conjugal Debt," in Women
and Gender in Medieval Europe: An
Encyclopedia, Margaret
Schaus, ed. (Routledge, 2006)
"Medieval Elections;" "Patria
Potestas;"
"Corpus
Iuris Civilis;" "Legal
Maxims;" "Panormitanus:" and "Fideicommissum,"
in The
Oxford Dictionary of the Middle
Ages, Oxford
University Press (forthcoming).
"Catholics, The First Amendment, and U.S. Military Law:
The Forgotten Case of Louis Negre," Signs of
Peace: The Journal of the Catholic Peace
Fellowship, vol. 4,
no. 2 (spring, 2005), pp. 10-15.
"The Three Great Antinomies of Modern Jurisprudence and
their Resolution in Christian Legal Thought,"
Regent
Law Review 18
(2005/2006), pp. 53-89.
"Toward an Understanding of Medieval Universal Rights:
The Marital Rights of Non-Christians in Early
Scholastic and Canonistic Writings,"
Ave Maria Law Review 3 (2005),
pp. 95-122.
"'When the Popes Ruled in England, Those Were Called
the Dark Ages:' Images of the Medieval Papacy and
Medieval Canon Law as Instruments of Repression in
Nineteenth-Century American Judicial Thought,"
Proceedings
of the Twelfth International Congress of Medieval Canon
Law (Vatican
City, forthcoming, 2008).
"The Rights of Self-Defense and Justified Warfare in
the Writings of the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century
Canonists," forthcoming, spring, 2005,
Festschrift
in Honor of James A. Brundage (Catholic
University of America Press, Michael A.
Hoeflich, ed) (forthcoming, 2006).
"Abortion, Bishops, Eucharist, and Politicians: A
Question of Communion," The
Catholic Lawyer 43 (2004)
(co-authored with Gregory C. Sisk), pp. 255-288.
"The Unavoidable Influence of Religion on the Law of
Marriage," Quinnipiac
Law Review 23 (2004),
pp. 493-528.
"The Gingerbread Man Thirty Years On: The Parlous State
of Marital Theory," University
of St. Thomas Law Journal 1 (2003),
pp. 656-712.
"Classical Religious Perspectives of Adoption Law,"
(authored section on adoption law in ecumenical study
of adoption in Jewish law, Islamic law, and Catholic
canon law (co-authors include Mohammed Fadel, Daniel
Pollack, and Moshe Bleich), Notre
Dame Law Review 79 (2004)
pp. 693-753.
"The Body of the Human Person in American Law: Sacred
Receptacle of the Holy Spirit or Marketable Commodity?"
in Figures
in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American
Past, Wilfred
McClay, ed., (Pew Foundation Project on the Human
Person) (forthcoming).
"The Augustinian Goods of Marriage: The Disappearing
Cornerstone of the American Law of Marriage,"
BYU
Journal of Public Law 18 (2004),
pp. 449-478.
"The Creativity of the Common-Law Judge: The
Jurisprudence of William Mitchell," William
Mitchell Law Review 30 (2003)
pp. 213-239.
"Legal Perspectives on the Catholic Crisis," public
forum, Albany Law School, with Bishop Howard Hubbard,
Leslie Griffin, and Barbara Blaine (text of Reid
presentation appears at Government,
Law, and Policy Journal 5 (2003),
pp. 50-55, pp. 60-64, and pp. 64-65.
"The Religious Conscience and the State in American
Constitutional Law, 1789-2000," in Hugh Heclo and
Wilfred M. McClay, eds., Religion
Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in
America (Woodrow
Wilson Center/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) pp.
63-110.
"'So It Will be Found that the Right of Women in Many
Cases is of Diminished Condition:' Rights and the Legal
Equality of Men and Women in Twelfth- and
Thirteenth-Century Canon Law," Loyola
(Los Angeles) Law Review 35 (2002)
pp. 471-512.
"The Spirit of the Learned Laws," Washington
University Global Studies Law Review
1 (2002)
pp. 507-536.
"James Kent," and "Joseph Story," in
American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia
(Bruce P.
Frohnen, editor, forthcoming).
"John T. Noonan, Jr., on the Catholic Conscience and
War: Negre v.
Larsen,"
Notre
Dame Law Review 76 (2001)
pp. 881-959 (propter
honoris causam volume in
honor of Judge John Noonan).
"Max Weber as Legal Historian" (with Harold J. Berman),
in Stephen Turner, ed., Cambridge
Companion to Max Weber (Cambridge
University Press, 2000) pp. 223-239.
"The Fundamental Freedom: Judge John T. Noonan, Jr.'s
Historiography of Religious Liberty,"
Marquette
Law Review 83 (1999)
pp. 367-433.
"In the Steps of Gratian: Writing the History of Canon
Law in the 1990s" (with John Witte, Jr.),
Emory
Law Journal 48 (1999)
pp. 647-688.
"Van der Vyver's Analysis of Rights: A Case Study Drawn
from Thirteenth-Century Canon Law" Koers
64 (1999)
pp. 213-222 (Festschrift
for Johan
D. Van der Vyver).
"Roots of a Democratic Church Polity in the History of
Canon Law: The Case of Elections in the Church,"
Proceedings
of the Canon Law Society of America
60 (1998)
pp. 150-178.
"The Medieval Origins of the Western Natural Rights
Tradition: The Achievement of Brian Tierney,"
Cornell
Law Review 83 (1998)
pp. 437-463.
"Diversity in Western Constitutionalism: Chartered
Rights, Federated Structure, and Natural-Law Reasoning
in Burke's Theory of Empire" (with Bruce P.
Frohnen), McGeorge
Law Review 29 (1997)
pp. 27-68.
"Foreward," pp. ix-xxi, "Bibliography of the Works of
John Maxcy Zane," pp. 531-533, and "Selected
Bibliography on Legal History," pp. 535-574, in
The
Story of Law.
"A Brief Account of Western Constitutional
History," Emory
Law Journal 46 (1997)
pp. 791-806 (review essay of Raoul Van Caenegem,
An
Historical Introduction to Western Constitutional
Law).
"The Transformation of English Legal Science: From Hale
to Blackstone," Emory
Law Journal 45 (1996)
(with Harold J. Berman) pp. 437-522.
"Thirteenth-Century Canon Law and Rights: The
Word Ius
and Its
Range of Subjective Meanings," Studia
Canonica 30 (1996)
pp. 295-342.
"The Seventeenth-Century Revolution in the English Land
Law," Cleveland
State Law Review 43 (1995)
pp. 221-302.
"The Papacy, Theology, and Revolution: A Response to
Joseph L. Soria's Critique of Harold J. Berman's
Law and
Revolution,"
Studia
Canonica 29 (1995)
pp. 433-480.
"The History of the Family," Concilium,
issue on The Family, 1995, pp. 10-17. (Translated into
Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, and Italian).
"Tyburn, Thanatos,
and Marxist Historiography: The Case of the London
Hanged," Cornell
Law Review 79 (1994)
pp. 1158-1199 (review essay of Peter Linebaugh's
The
London Hanged).
"'Am I, By Law, the Lord of the World?' How the
Juristic Response to Frederick Barbarossa's Curiosity
Helped Shape Western Constitutionalism,"
Michigan
Law Review 92 (1994)
pp. 1646-1674 (review essay of Kenneth
Pennington, The
Prince and the Law, 1200-1600).
"Roman Law in Europe and the Jus
Commune: A
Historical Overview with Emphasis on the New Legal
Science of the Sixteenth Century" (with Harold J.
Berman) Syracuse
Journal of International Law and Commerce
20 (1994)
pp. 1-31. A briefer version of this article
appears Scintillae
Iuris: Studi in memoria di Gino
Gorla, vol. II,
pp. 979-1014 (1995). A German translation appears
in Zeitschrift
für Europäisches Privatrecht 3 (1995)
3-34. A Russian abridgement can be found in
Gosudarstvo
i Pravo (State
and Law), 1994,
no. 12, pp. 103-109.
"The Ethical Analysis of War in a Post-Cold War World:
The Persian Gulf War and Beyond," St.
John's Law Review 66 (1992)
pp. 865-932 (review essay of Richard B. Miller,
Interpretations
of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War
Tradition; James
Turner Johnson and George Weigel, Just War
and the Gulf War; and Alan
Geyer and Barbara G. Green, Lines in
the Sand: Justice and the Gulf
War).
"The Canonistic Contribution to the Western Rights
Tradition: An Historical Inquiry," Boston
College Law Review 33 (1991)
pp. 37-92.
"Editor's Preface," pp. ix-x, and "Selected
Bibliography on Issues of War and Peace," pp. 399-415,
in Peace in
a Nuclear Age.
"Some Applications of Principles of Management Theory
to Diocesan Structures," The
Jurist 44 (1984)
pp. 448-456.
SHORT BOOK REVIEWS
Szuromi, Szabolcs Anzelm, Anselm
of Lucca as a Canonist,
Studia
Canonica (forthcoming).
John Witte, Jr. and Eliza Ellison, Covenant
Marriage in Comparative
Perspective,
American
Catholic Historical Review (forthcoming,
2007).
Puff, Helmut, Sodomy
in Reformation Germany and Switzerland,
1400-1600,
Speculum
81.4
(October 2006) pp.1245-1247.
Roger E. Reynolds, ed., The
Collectio Canonum Casinensis Duodecimi
Saeculi,
Studia
Canonica 39.1/2
(2005): 362-364.
Haiman, Franklyn S., Religious
Expression and the American
Constitution,
Catholic
Historical Review Oct 2005,
Vol. 91 Issue 4, pp. 859-861
Carmichael, Calum, Ideas
and the Man: Remembering David
Daube,
Journal
of Law and Religion. 20.2
(2004-2005) pp. 571-574.
Noonan, John T., and Gaffney, Edward McGlynn,
Religious
Freedom: History, Cases, and Other Materials on the
Interaction of Religion and
Government,
Studia
Canonica 36 (2002),
pp. 257-258.
Glendon, Mary Ann, Rights
Talk: The Impoverishment of Political
Discourse,
Journal
of Law and Religion 16 (2001),
pp. 377-381.
Grasso, Kenneth, Bradley, Gerard V., and Hunt, Robert
P., Catholicism,
Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic
Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of
Democracy,
Journal
of Law and Religion 16 (2001),
pp. 793-796.
Cowdrey, H.E.J., Pope
Gregory VII: 1073-1085 Studia
Canonica 35 (2001)
pp. 514-517.
William of Saint Amour, Opera
omnia Studia
canonica 35 (2001)
pp. 240-242.
Kéry, Lotte, Canonical
Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A
Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and
Literature,
Studia
Canonica 35 (2001)
pp. 247-248.
Hyland, William P., ed., Custody
of the Heart: Selected Spiritual Writings of Abbot
Martin Veth, O.S.B.,
Kansas
History: A Journal of the Central Plains
24 (2001)
p. 249.
Germovnik, Francis, Indices
Corporis Iuris Canonici Studia
Canonica 34 (2000)
pp. 567-568.
Finkelman, Paul, ed., Religion
and American Law: An
Encyclopedia,
Journal
of Law and Religion 16 (2001),
pp. 729-731.
Baker, John H., Monuments
of Endlesse Labours: English Canonists and Their Work,
1300-1900,
Studia
Canonica 34 (2000)
pp. 540-542.
Ferme, Brian Edwin, Canon
Law in Late Medieval England: A Study of William
Lyndwood's Provinciale with particular reference to
Testamentary Practice,
Studia
Canonica 34 (2000)
pp. 535-537.
Halliday, Terence C., and Karpik, Lucien, eds.,
Lawyers
and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism: Europe
and North America from the Eighteenth to Twentieth
Centuries,
American
Journal of Legal History 48 (1999)
pp. 99-101.
Muldoon, James, Canon
Law, the Expansion of Europe, and World
Order,
Studia
Canonica 33 (1999)
pp. 562-564.
Noonan, John T., Jr., Canons
and Canonists in Context,
Studia
Canonica 33 (1999)
pp. 552-554.
Werckmeister, Jean, editor and translator,
Yves de
Chartres, Prologue,
The
Jurist 59 (1999)
pp. 289-291.
Somerville, Robert, and Brasington, Bruce C., editors
and translators, Prefaces
to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity,
500-1245,
The
Jurist 59 (1999)
pp. 291-295.
Tierney, Brian, Foundations
of the Conciliar Theory: The Contribution of the
Medieval Canonists from Gratian to the Great
Schism, enlarged
new edition, Studia
Canonica 33 (1999)
pp. 261-263.
Kay, Richard, translator and commentator,
Dante's
Monarchia,
Studia
Canonica 33 (1999)
pp. 251-252.
Noonan, John T., Jr., The
Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of
Religious Freedom,
Studia
Canonica 33 (1999)
pp. 257-260.
Reiter, Eric H., editor, Stella
clericorum,
Studia
Canonica 32 (1998)
pp. 562-563.
Tierney, Brian, Rights,
Laws and Infallibility in Medieval
Thought,
Studia
Canonica 32 (1998)
pp. 564-566.
Brett, Annabel S., Liberty,
Right, and Nature: Individual Rights in Later
Scholastic Thought,
Catholic
Historical Review 84 (1998)
pp. 90-93.
Kay, Richard, Councils
and Clerical Culture in the Medieval
West,
Studia
Canonica 32 (1998)
pp. 554-555.
DeCoste, F.C., and MacPherson, Lillian,
Law,
Religion, Theology: A Selective Annotated
Bibliography,
Studia
Canonica 32 (1998)
pp. 547-549.
Brundage, James A., Medieval
Canon Law,
Studia
Canonica 32 (1998)
pp. 258-260.
Tierney, Brian, The Idea
of Natural Rights: Studies in Natural Rights, Natural
Law, and Church Law, 1150-1625,
Studia
Canonica 32 (1998)
pp. 277-279.
Bellomo, Manlio, The
Common Legal Past of Europe,
1000-1800,
Law and
History Review 16 (1998)
pp. 403-405.
Rogers, James Steven, The
Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes: A Study of
the Origins of Anglo-American Commercial
Law,
The
Business Lawyer 53 (1998)
pp. 835-849.
Gauthier, Albert, Roman
Law and Its Contribution to the Development of Canon
Law,
Studia
Canonica 31 (1997)
pp. 272-273.
Gaudemet, Jean, Église
et cité: Histoire du droit
canonique,
The
Jurist 56 (1996)
pp. 938-942.
Elliott, Dyan, Spiritual
Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval
Wedlock,
The
Jurist 55 (1995)
pp. 463-466.
Müller, Wolfgang P., Huguccio:
The Life, Work, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century
Jurist,
The
Jurist 55 (1995)
pp. 401-403.
Powell, James, editor, Innocent
III: Vicar of Christ or Lord of the World?
The
Jurist 55 (1995)
pp. 396-399.
Richard, Jean, St.
Louis: Crusader King of France,
Catholic
Historical Review 80 (1994)
pp. 579-581.
Verkamp, Bernard, The
Moral Treatment of Returning Warriors in Early Medieval
and Modern Times,
International
History Review 16 (1994)
pp. 778-780.
Grimm, Benno, editor, Die
Ehelehre des Magister Honorius: Ein Beitrag zur
Ehelehre der Anglo-Normanischen
Schule,
The
Jurist 53 (1993)
pp. 443-445.
Kelly, John M., A Short
History of Western Legal Theory,
American
Journal of Legal History 37 (1993)
pp. 497-499 (with Harold J. Berman).
Mollat, Michel, The Poor
in the Middle Ages: A Social
History,
New
Oxford Review, June,
1988, pp. 30-31.
Frier, Bruce, The Rise
of the Roman Jurists: Studies in
Cicero's
Pro
Caecina,
The
Jurist 47 (1987)
pp. 589-592.
Honore, Tony, Ulpian,
The
Jurist 47 (1987)
pp. 589-592.
Mead, Lawrence M., Beyond
Entitlement: The Social Obligations of
Citizenship,
New
Oxford Review, December,
1987, pp. 28-29.
Kenny, Anthony, The
Logic of Deterrence,
Catholicism
in Crisis, June,
1986, pp. 43-45.
Helgeland, John, Daly, R.J., and Burns, J.P.,
Christians
and the Military: The Early
Experience,
Catholicism
in Crisis, February,
1986, pp. 29-31.
Moots, Philip R., and Gaffney, Edward M.,
Church
and Campus: Legal Issues in Religiously Affiliated
Higher Education,
The
Jurist 45 (1985)
pp. 677-680.
Gaffney, Edward M., and Moots, Philip R.,
Government
and Campus: Federal Regulation of Religiously
Affiliated Higher Education,
The
Jurist 45 (1985)
pp. 677-680.
Dutile, Fernand M., and Gaffney, Edward M.,
State
and Campus: State Regulation of Religiously Affiliated
Higher Education,
The
Jurist 45 (1985)
pp. 677-680.
Phillips, Robert L., War and
Justice,
Catholic
University Law Review 34 (1985)
pp. 1173-1187.
MISCELLANEOUS
"Christian Right Conspiracy," Chronicles:
A Magazine of American Culture, August,
2007, pp. 8-9 (co-authored with Robert J. Delahunty).
"The Life and Legacy of Pope John Paul II," two-hour
radio broadcast/interview, Relevant Radio (Catholic
Radio Network), April 2, 2005.
"Sherman is a Better Coach than a General
Manager," Green
Bay Press-Gazette, January
13, 2005 (on-line version).
"Religion and Gay Marriages: Stand on Marriage
Transcends Faith," Minneapolis
Star Tribune, April 4,
2004 (co-authored with Stephen A. Heaney and Steven J.
Long).
"Hear Catholic Voice on Marriage," Guest
editorial, Des
Moines Register, August
13, 2003 (co-authored with Msgr. Frank Bognanno, Teresa
S. Collett, and Gregory C. Sisk).
"Last Rights," (letter to the Editors of
Newsweek),
Newsweek,
March 13, 1989, p. 11.
MAJOR PRESENTATIONS
Presented, "Rights, Justice, and the Canon Law: The
Implications of Nicholas Wolterstorff's Work for the
Study of Medieval Canon Law," University of Virginia,
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, March 29,
2007.
Presented, "The Canon Law of Marriage," at Multi-Tiered
Marriage conference, Pepperdine University, February
23, 2007.
Presented "The Rights of Children in Catholic Canon Law
and Papal Social Teaching, Emory University Conference
on "the Best Love of the Child," September 22, 2006.
Presented, "Sexual Virtue, Sexual Vice and the
Requirements of the Good Society: Lessons from Ancient
Rome," Brigham Young University School of Law,
September 15, 2006.
Respondent, to paper presented by Jean Porter on
scholasticism and same-sex marriage, Natural Law
Colloquium, Fordham University Department of
Philosophy, February 2, 2006.
Presented, "Marriage: Its Relationship to Religion and
the State in American Law," to the Becket Fund,
Washington, DC, December 15, 2005.
Presented, "The Christian Foundations of the American
Law of Marriage," at a symposium on "Christian
Jurisprudence," Emory University School of Law,
November 4-6th, 2005).
Presented, "And the State Makes Three," at symposium on
marriage law held at Cardozo School of Law, November 2,
2005.
"The Rights of Children in Medieval Canon Law,"
presented in my absence and on my behalf by John Witte,
at the Vocation of the Child Conference, Emory
University School of Law, September 29, 2005.
Presented, "The Supreme Court and Marriage: A History
of the Federalization of Marriage," at the Federalism
and the Law of Marriage Conference, Harvard School of
Law, August 26, 2005.
Presented, "Perspectives on Institutional Change," at
the Illuminating Marriage Conference, sponsored by
McGill University and held at Kananaskis, Alberta, May
19, 2005.
Presented, "Protection of Rights and the Maxims of the
Law: From Gratian to Gaudium
et Spes and
Beyond," at the "Call to Justice"
conference, hosted by the Pontifical Congregation for
Justice and Peace, Vatican City, March 18, 2005.
Presented, "The Three Great Antinomies of Modern
Jurisprudence and their Resolution in Christian Legal
Thought," at a program jointly sponsored by the
Christian Law Professors Fellowship, the Journal of Law
and Religion, and the Lumen Christi Institute, parallel
to the AALS convention in San Francisco, January 8,
2005.
Presented, "Toward an Understanding of Medieval
Universal Rights," at Ave Maria Law School at a
conference on "Rethinking Rights and Responsibilities,"
November 20, 2004.
Presented, "Three Great Continuities in Western
Marriage Law," at the Asia/Pacific Dialogue on the
Family/Towards the Doha International Conference on the
Family, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 14, 2004.
Presented, "'When the Popes Ruled in England, Those
Were Called the Dark Ages:' Images of the Medieval
Papacy and Medieval Canon Law as Instruments of
Repression in Nineteenth-Century American Judicial
Thought," Twelfth International Congress of Medieval
Canon Law, The Catholic University of America, August,
2004.
Presented, "Paulus Vladimiri, The Tractatus,
Opinio Hostiensis, and the
Rights of Infidels," Spring Meeting, American Catholic
Historical Association, St. Thomas University (Miami),
April 16, 2004.
Presented, "The Unavoidable Influence of Religion on
the Law of Marriage," Quinnipiac Law School and
Connecticut State Bar Association Conference on
Same-Sex Marriage, March 26, 2004.
Testified before the House Committee on Civil Law, on
behalf of amending the Minnesota Constitution to
protect the legal status of heterosexual marriage,
January 28, 2004.
Presented, "A Tale of Two Vocabularies: Marriage as
Matter of Public Right and Building Block of Society,
or Marriage as the Private Arrangements of the
Parties," Catholic University Project on Marriage
Conference, November 14, 2003.
Presented, "The Gingerbread Man Thirty Years On: The
Parlous State of Marital Theory," Symposium in Honor of
Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., University of St. Thomas
School of Law, October 19, 2003.
Presented, "The Augustinian Goods of Marriage: The
Disappearing Cornerstone of the American Law of
Marriage," Brigham Young University Project on Marriage
Conference, August 29, 2003.
Presented, "The Crisis of Priestly Pedophilia: The
Values at Stake," at Open Forum, Albany Law School,
December 3, 2002. Also taped a segment of National
Public Radio's "The Law Show."
Presented, "The Common-Law Jurisprudence of Justice
William Mitchell," at William Mitchell Law School,
November 19, 2002.
Presented, "Early Medieval Hagiography and the Marital
Ideal," at the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy
of the Midwest, St. Norbert's University, September 27,
2002.
Presented, "At the Origin of Universal Rights: The
Rights of Non-Christians in Thirteenth-Century Canon
Law," meeting of the Society of Catholic Social
Scientists, Ann Arbor, MI., October 26, 2001.
Presented, "The Religious Conscience and the State in
American Constitutional Law," at the Woodrow Wilson
Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institute, Washington,
D.C., April 6, 2001.
Panel member, roundtable discussion on the work of
Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., Center for the Study of
World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, October 8,
1999.
Presented, seminar on "Roots of a Democratic Church
Polity in the History of Canon Law," annual convention,
Canon Law Society of America, October 16, 1998,
Orlando, Florida.
Presented, "Roman Law in Europe and the
Ius
commune: A
Historical Overview with Emphasis on the New Legal
Science of the Sixteenth Century" (co-authored with
Harold J. Berman), at the meeting of the Roman Law
Society and Comparative Law Society, Syracuse
University, November 13, 1993.