Law & Culture Forum | Program in Monastic Studies
Law & Culture Forum
Academic Chair, John Breen, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
The mission of The Lumen Christi Institute Law and Culture Forum is to engage in a rigorous fashion the Catholic intellectual tradition as it relates to contemporary questions of law and justice, to encourage this engagement in the legal profession, to heighten the public debate on the role of law in shaping our public culture, and to foster a knowledge of this reflection on the law among future law scholars. The Colloquium helps lawyers explore their twin vocations as legal professionals and as Christians. The Institute has co-sponsored the Annual Conference on Christian Legal Theory and in June 2009 has planned two major Law and Culture Forum events downtown. These events are making the richness of Catholic thought available to many members of the law profession and the wider community. Forum events are often co-sponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild and the Christian Law Association at the University of Chicago Law School.