CAMDEN – Sarah Barringer Gordon, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, will deliver the Donald C. Clark Jr. Program in Law and Religion Lecture at the Rutgers School of Law–Camden at 4 p.m. March 28.
A widely recognized authority on issues related to religion in American public life, and a prominent scholar in the field of law and religion, Gordon will discuss "The Landscape of Faith: Disestablishment and Property in the Early Republic" during her talk, which is free of charge and open to the public.
Her first book, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina, 2002), won the Mormon History Association's and the Utah Historical Society's best book awards in 2003. Her new book about religion and law in the 20th century, The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America (Harvard University, 2010), explores the world of church and state. She is currently working on a third book, tentatively titled The Place of Faith, about religion and property in American history.
The Donald C. Clark Jr. Program in Law and Religion Lecture is supported by Donald C. Clark Jr., a 1979 graduate of the Rutgers–Camden law school who generously contributed an endowment to advance the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion and other programs at the Rutgers law school. A former litigation partner in some of Chicago's largest law firms, and former managing partner of his own litigation boutique, Clark now provides legal counsel and representation to clergy, churches, and religious judicatories
throughout the country in his role as nationwide special counsel of the United Church of Christ. Clark also supported the establishment of a student lounge area, known as the Clark Commons, at the Rutgers School of Law–Camden.
The event will be held in room 103 in the School of Law Building, located at Fifth and Penn Sts. on the Camden Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. A reception will follow.
For more details, contact [email protected].
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