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2024 CBA Conference -- AUDIO ONLY!

Catholic Lawyers: Uniting Law and Reason

  • The Most Reverend Thomas J. Paprocki: St. John Fisher Lecture: The King’s Good Servant, but God’s First: Responses in Canon and Civil Law to Governmental Threats to the Church’s Freedom to Carry Out Her Mission
  • Gerard V. Bradley: Charles E. Rice Memorial Lecture: “Progressive” Prosecution and Criminal Punishment 
  • Paul R. DeHart: The Social Contract in the Ruins? Natural Law and Government by Consent
  • Brendan Wilson: Protecting the Church: Religious Liberty and Religious Accountability 
  • Scott D. Pollock: Immigration Law vs. Religious Freedom – Backlogs and Beyond  
  • Andrea Picciotti-Bayer: Religious Freedom in America: Under Attack
  • Nina Hope Shea: How and Why U.S. Foreign Policy Should Promote Religious Freedom
  • Patrick Jenevein: Stalking the Dragon: Pre, Para, Post-Bellum – Lawsuits Aren’t Pink Teas
  • Legislative Update Session 
    • Eric N. Kniffin: Attacks on the Priest-Penitent Privilege 
    • Nikolas T. Nikas: What Has the Alabama Supreme Court Wrought? In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Wrongful Death, Extracorporeal Embryos and a Saga of Confusion 
    • Peter H. Wickersham: Dishonorable Disobedience or Conscientious Objection: Recent Developments in the Defense of Healthcare Conscience Rights

2023 CBA Conference

Catholic Lawyers: Heeding the Call of Truth

  • Helen Alvare: Charles E. Rice Memorial Lecture: Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution
  • Judge Robert J. Conrad: John Fisher and Thomas More: Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads
  • Mattias Caro: The Advanced Medical Directive: Encountering Truth in Union with the Suffering Christ and Medical Decision-Making Authority
  • Michael Mazza: The Eclipse of Moral Certitude and the Importance of Standards of Proof
  • Nicole Garnett: Religious Liberty and School Choice
  • Erika Bachiochi: The Rights of Women: A Natural Law Approach
  • Rev. Robert A. Sirico: What the Case of Jimmy Lai tells us about the Persecuted Church in Hong Kong and Mainland China
  • A Panel Discussion among Joseph Bottum, William Doino, and Ron Rychlak: The Tale that Won’t Stop Wagging: The Attacks on Pius XII and What They Tell Us
The sessions of Mark Rienzi, Heather Lachenauer, Judge Justin Walker, and Judge William H. Pryor are not available.

2022 CBA Conference

Catholic Lawyers: Upholding the Rule of Law

  • Teresa Stanton Collett delivers the Charles E. Rice Lecture: Dobbs and Our Call to Build a Culture of Life
  • C’Zar Bernstein: Abortion and the Original Meaning of “Person” in the Fourteenth Amendment
  • Bishop Edward Burns: Welcome and Thomas More Pilgrimage Invitation
  • President J. J. Sanford: What Does the Law Have to Do with Virtue?
  • Charles S. LiMandri: Defending Against the Attacks on our Religious Liberty
  • Michael Schutt: ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) and the Vanishing Rule of Law
  • Louis Brown: The Case for Civil Rights in Health Care: Legal Principles Pertaining to Life, Religious Freedom, and Medical Conscience
  • Dean John Czarnetzky: Academic Advisory Announcement
  • Bennett Rawicki: Welcome and Introduction of the St. Thomas More Society of the Diocese of Dallas
  • Will Thibeau: Big Tech and the American Citizen: Free Speech, Privacy, and Policy
  • Archbishop Borys Gudziak, Ph.D.: The Church and the Catholic People of Ukraine
The sessions of Judge Sarah Pitlyk and Prof. Gerard Wegemer are not available.

2021 CBA Conference

Catholic Lawyers: Navigating Turbulent Waters

  • George M. Ahrend: The Intersection of Religious Liberty with Antidiscrimination law
  • William J. Haun: Where Two or Three are Gathered: Restoring the Constitution’s Protections for Civil Society
  • Adrian Vermeule delivers the Charles Rice Lecture: The Constitution and the Common Good
  • Andrew Schlafly: Conscientious Objection and Independent Judgment in Healthcare: Dispatches from the Frontlines
  • Steven W. Mosher: In China, the Law is a Penal Tool of the CCP -- and is being used to Crush the Church
  • Prof. Ryan Meade: Serving Clients as Professional Responsibility: The Vocation of a Lawyer
  • Christopher Ferrara: The First Amendment and Church Closures
  • Kate Anderson: Parental Rights in Education: A Legal Response to the Rising Tide of Critical Race Theory and Gender Ideology
  • Dean John M. Czarnetzky delivers the St. Thomas More Lecture: Catholic Social Doctrine in the American Corporation
  • Prof. Ronald J. Rychlak: Healing the Constitution: A Catholic Cure
  • Most Rev. Felipe de Jesús Estévez, Bishop of Saint Augustine, Florida: Cuba—Saint John Fisher Lecture: Is there a Future of Hope?
The session of Prof. Travis Curtright, Ph.D., "The Holiness of St. Thomas More", was not recorded.


2020 CBA Conference

Catholic Lawyers: Serving the Common Good

  • A Conversation with Prof. Robert A. George: The Charles E. Rice Memorial Lecture
  • Prof. D. Brian Scarnecchia: From TELOS to TORT: Natural Law Theories of Liability for Human Ecology and a Healthy Environment
  • Prof. Jane F. Adolphe: Clerical Sexual Misconduct: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
  • Sherif Girgis: Religious Liberty, “First” in Seven Ways
  • A Conversation with Hon. Amul R. Thapar: Faith and the Judiciary
  • Inaugural St. John Fisher Lecture: The Proper Boundary Between Civil Legal Authority and Church Authority by the Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco
  • Rev. Tadeusz “Tad” Pacholczyk, Ph.D.: Vaccines, Ventilators and Other Ethical Challenges of COVID-19
  • Joshua A. Skinner: The Moral (and Not Merely Legal) Obligation of Universities to Prevent and Remedy Harassment and Sexual Violence
  • Hon. Joseph L. Falvey, Jr.: Common Ground for the Common Good
  • Dean Kevin Cieply: The Role of Catholic Legal Education and Its Contribution to the Common Good
  • Interview with Baronelle Stutzman: ADF Client & Floral Artist
  • Joseph Pearce: Law and Literature
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