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

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

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

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?

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