Video Archive
50 Years After the King Assassination: A Barometer Panel on Race and Justice
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Featuring Dr. Peniel Joseph, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin, and St. Thomas deans Yohuru Williams (CAS) and Robert Vischer (Law).
Grand Schulze Atrium
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis campus
Forum on Public Safety in Immigrant Communities
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, and Felipe Illescas of SEIU Minnesota State Council come together to discuss improving public safety in immigrant communities.
Schulze Grand Atrium
University of St. Thomas School of Law
1101 Harmon Place
Minneapolis, MN
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Hot Topics: Cool Talk - Should Medicaid Be Converted to a Block-Grant Program?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lucas Swanepoel, Sr. Director Government Affairs Catholic Charities USA, and David Vang, Prof. of Finance, University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business, debate Medicaid block-granting.
MSL 235
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis Campus
Hot Topics: Cool Talk - What Should We Do About Confederate Monuments?
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Deans Robert Vischer (School of Law) and Yohuru Williams (College of Arts and Sciences) will tackle the complex issues presented in the national debate over the fate of Confederate monuments.
MCH 100, St. Paul campus.
Approved for 1.0 continuing legal education credit (event code: 247562)
Hot Topics: Cool Talk - What Should We Do About Confederate Monuments?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Deans Robert Vischer (School of Law) and Yohuru Williams (College of Arts and Sciences) will tackle the complex issues presented in the national debate over the fate of Confederate monuments.
MSL 235, School of Law, Minneapolis campus
Christianity and Politics in the U.S. Today: A Conversation with Ross Douthat and Cornel West
5:45 PM - 8:30 PM Friday, April 7; Reception 5:45 p.m., Program 6:45 p.m.
Video of this remarkable event is now (finally!) available. Click on the link below to view it.
Woulfe Alumni Hall, Anderson Student Center
Approved by the Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.5 CLE credits (event code 234701).
Will the Executive Orders on Immigration Hold Up in Court?
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
University of St. Thomas General Counsel and law professors form a panel to explore the implications and legality of President Trump's executive orders on immigration.
Room 235
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis campus
Was Galileo a Heretic? You Be the Judge.
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for a unique staging of the Trial of Galileo - part of "The Earth Unmoored" series commemorating the 400-year anniversary of the Galileo Affair.
Frey- Moot Courtroom
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis campus
If the U.S. supported women, children, and families more fully - as they do in Europe - should elective abortion be further restricted?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Charlie Camosy and Robin Marty debate further abortion restrictions.
Room 235, School of Law, Minneapolis Campus
Finding Common Ground Between Public Safety and Racial Justice—All for the Common Good
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
A public forum at the University of St. Thomas School of Law
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Schulze Grand Atrium
1101 Harmon Place
Minneapolis, MN
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Immigration Reform: Economic and Pastoral Perspectives
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Immigration Reform: Economic and Pastoral Perspectives is part of The St. Thomas Law Journal Spring 2016 Symposium examining the legal, moral, and issues surrounding sanctuary cities.
Room 235
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis campus
Change of Heart: Making Peace With My Sister's Killer
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Jeanne Bishop has traveled an extraordinary 25-year journey that ultimately led to her corresponding and then meeting multiple times with her sister's killer.
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Frey Moot Courtroom
Thinking Humanly, Acting Wisely
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
A symposium on Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge with Pfau and UST professors: An and MacKenzie (English), Kidd (Cath.Studies), and McInroy (Theo.)
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Auditorium
University of St. Thomas
St. Paul campus
Inside the Synod on the Family: What Really Happened and What Does It All Mean?
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Guest lecturer, John Grabowski, gives an insider interpretation of the 2015 Synod on the Family.
3M Auditorium, Owens Science Hall
University of St. Thomas
St. Paul campus
Celebrating the Jubilee Year of Mercy
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Reverend Larry J. Snyder, Vice President for Mission at the University of St. Thomas, will offer insights into how we might celebrate the Pope Francis' Extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy.
Room 235
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis Campus
Federal Narcotics Sentences: Too High?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Featuring Hon. Richard Sullivan, Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and UST professor of law, Mark Osler.
Room 235
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis campus
The Architecture of an Apology
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Featuring Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati, professor emeritus of history at Macalester College and Dr. Kimberly Vrudny, associate professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas.
Room 235
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis campus
Should Executive Clemency Play a Regular Operational Role in the Criminal Justice System?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Featuring Margaret Love and Mark Osler (UST Law)
Room 235
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis campus
Un-Nuke Now! Should We Heed the Pope's Call?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
UST law professor, Robert Delahunty, and his former student, Joseph Grodahl Biever, will discuss the Catholic Church's position on the possession and use of atomic weapons.
Room 235, UST School of Law
Minneapolis Campus
Just Wages: Catholic Social Thought and Economic Perspectives
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Professors will engage in a vigorous dialogue on the role of government in securing just wages for workers in light of Gospel teaching.
Room 235, School of Law
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis campus
Should Justice or Agape Love Be the Organizing Principle of Civil Law?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Featuring Robert F. Cochran Jr and David VanDrunen as expert speakers and Thomas Berg as moderator.
Room 235
University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis campus
Business as an Agent for Social Change: Social Entrepreneurship; Benefit Corporations; and Curing Poverty (part of the Higher Calling Series)
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM April 24, 2014, Session One: 3-5 p.m., Reception 5-5:30 p.m., Session Two: 5:30-8 p.m
Join us for a two- part interdisciplinary program examining how entrepreneurship and new business models might affect social change.
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis campus
Wall Street, the Financial Crisis, and Prosecutorial Underreach: Two Views
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Two former Assistant U.S. Attorneys, debate whether prosecutors reached far enough into Wall Street's executive suites to administer justice in the wake of the financial crisis.
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Room 235
Is Legal Abortion Necessary for Sexual Equality in the United States?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Professors and professionals argue constitutional Law and feminist legal theory and author of "Embodied Equality: Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights”
Room 235, University of St. Thomas School of Law
Minneapolis Campus
The Romeike Asylum Case: Does Germany's Ban on Homeschooling Count as Religious Persecution?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
It will explore Catholic positions and other perspectives on provacative issues of law and policy, focuses this year on the challenges to religious freedom in the United States and around the world.
Room 235, School of Law