Law and Society Ass'n Meeting: Religious Topics (and a Shameless Self-Promotion)

[Sisk, Gregory C.]

For those of you who may be in Chicago between Thursday, May 27 and Sunday,
May 30, the Law and Society Association will be holding its annual meeting
with a good number of interesting programs.  Many of the programs are
pertinent to law and religion, and the following panels are directly
pertinent:

 

*  The Sex Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church: Historical, Legal,
Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives (Thursday, May 27 at 10:15-12:00)

* The Buddha's Shadow: A New Approach to Asian Legal Cultures ( Thursday,
May 27, 10:15 - 12:00)

*
<http://convention.allacademic.com/lsa2004/session_info.html?c_session_id=82
&dtr_id=112> Influences on Federal Judicial Decisionmaking: Theory and
Empirical Study (with several papers focused upon religious influences)
(Saturday, May 29, at 8:15 - 10:00)

* Religion and Law in Historical Perspective (Sunday, May 30, 10:15 - 12:00)

 

You can find more information about the Law and Society Association meeting
at:  http://www.lawandsociety.org/ann_mt_gen.htm
<http://www.lawandsociety.org/ann_mt_gen.htm> 

 

In the category of shameless self-promotions, on the panel on Influences on
Federal Judicial Decisionmaking noted above, I will be presenting a study,
"Searching for the Soul of Judicial Decisionmaking:  An Empirical Study of
Religious Freedom Decisions," which shortly (in a matter of days or weeks),
will be published at 65 Ohio State Law Journal 491 (2004).  Along with my
co-authors Michael Heise of Cornell and Andrew Morriss of Case Western, I
conducted a comprehensive statistical study of federal court of appeals and
district court judges deciding hundreds of religious liberty cases; the
study includes creation and analysis of integrated models of judicial
attitudes in practice toward the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of
the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.  Based upon our
study, the vitality of religious variables to a more complete understanding
of judicial decisionmaking is abundantly clear.  Indeed, the single most
prominent, salient, and consistent influence on judicial decisionmaking in
our study was religion-religion in terms of affiliation of the claimant, the
background of the judge, and the demographics of the community, independent
of other background and political variables commonly used in empirical tests
of judicial behavior.

 

Although many members of this list will receive reprints of the article when
my co-authors and I blanket the country with them this summer, you can also
obtain the piece in pdf format through the following link (the attachment is
too large in size to attach to an e-mail).  (Note:  If you get an error
message when clicking on the link, it may be due to the link being broken
across two lines in the e-mail.  Try cutting the full link out of the e-mail
and pasting it into the browser.  If that still doesn't work, let me know
and I'll add you to the reprint list for later mailing.):

 

http://personal2.stthomas.edu/GCSISK/Siskwebpagestuff/Sisk.Searching.Soul.pd
f
<http://personal2.stthomas.edu/GCSISK/Siskwebpagestuff/Sisk.Searching.Soul.p
df> 

 

Greg

 

Gregory Sisk

Professor of Law

University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minneapolis)

MSL 400, 1000 LaSalle Avenue

Minneapolis, MN  55403-2005

651-962-4923

gcsisk at stthomas.edu

http://personal2.stthomas.edu/GCSISK/sisk.html
<http://personal2.stthomas.edu/GCSISK/sisk.html> 

 

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