Session 1. Gerard V. Bradley - "Progressive" Prosecution and Punishment 

• Abstract
• Readings
• Text of Model Rule of Professional Conduct 3.8 and Comment
  

Session 2. Paul R. DeHart - The Social Contract in the Ruins? Natural Law and Government by Consent

• Outline
• Readings
  

Session 3. Brendan Wilson - Protecting the Church: Religious Liberty and Religious Accountability

• Detailed Outline
  

Session 4. Andrea Picciotti-Bayer - Religious Freedom in America: Under Attack

• Presentation (Powerpoint)  (in PDF format)
• Bibliography with linked resources
  

Session 5. Scott D. Pollock: Immigration Law vs. Religious Freedom – Backlogs and Beyond

• Outline
• How the U.S. Immigration System Works
• Matter of Church Scientology International
• Matter of NWORU
• Diocese of Paterson v. U.S.
  

Session 6. The Most Rev. Thomas J. Paprocki - 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

• Summary Description
• Selection of Civil and Canon Law sample
  

Session 7. Legislative Updates

Eric N. Kniffin - Attacks on the Priest-Penitent Privilege

• Detailed Outline
  

Nikolas T. Nikas - What Has the Alabama Supreme Court Wrought? IVF, Wrongful Death, Extracorporeal Embryos and a Saga of Confusion

• Outline
• Finnis/George Brief to Dobbs
• LePage v Center for Reproductive Medicine
  

Peter H. Wickersham - Dishonorable Disobedience or Conscientious Objection: Recent Developments in the Defense of Healthcare Conscience Rights

• Powerpoint
• Talking points for slides
• Outline
• Texas v. Becherra
• Moyle v. United States
  
• Weldon Amendment
• Coates-Snow Amendment
  

Session 8. Nina Hope Shea - How and Why U.S. Foreign Policy Should Promote Religious Freedom

• Synopsis
• Declaration and First Amendment
• Frank Wolf Amendment
• International Religious Freedom Act of 1998
• Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights
• Washington Letter to Tuoro Synagogue
  

Session 9. Patrick Jenevein - Stalking the Dragon: Pre, Para, Post-Bellum - Lawsuits Aren't Pink Teas

• Outline
• Catic USA v. Soaring Wind Energy
• Soaring Wind Energy v. Catic USA (U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas)
  
• Arbitration Award