Sunday, July 10, 2016
The (Im)Possibility Of Christian Legal Education
Victor M. Muniz-Fraticelli (McGill), The (Im)Possibility of Christian Education:
Opponents of the Trinity Western University Law School do not seek to prohibit traditionalist religious law schools outright, nor do they seek to exclude individual candidates who hold traditionalist beliefs from becoming lawyers. Their effort, rather, is to give these schools the option to compromise on their religious identity, or to have students lose access to the most direct routes into the legal profession. This choice inhibits the establishment of traditionalist religious law schools by increasing the cost of maintaining a distinct institutional religious identity. When the alternative is to hold fast to religion but retreat from the task of producing lawyers, or play religion down and enter the legal market without any difference from secular institutions, the result is always the elimination of distinctly religious institutions from the educational landscape. This paper proposes an alternative that allows for the possibility of institutional diversity.
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
- Deans Oppose Canada's First Christian Law School (Jan. 19, 2013)
- An Argument for a Christian Law School in Canada (Aug. 4, 2013)
- Canada Approves First Christian Law School Despite Opposition Over Student Code of Conduct Prohibiting Gay 'Sexual Intimacy' (Dec. 20, 2013)
- Legal Education, Religious and Secular: The Trinity Western University Controversy and Beyond (June 1, 2014)
- Legal Education, Gay Rights and Religion: Living by a Different Law (Nov. 9, 2014)
- Canada's First Christian Law School Sues Over Denial of Accreditation Due to Student Code of Conduct (Dec. 25, 2014)
- Will Christian Colleges (And Law Schools) Lose Their Tax Exemption After Obergefell? (July 5, 2015)
- Brunson: Churches And Religiously-Affiliated Schools That Oppose Same-Sex Marriage Will Not Lose Their Tax Exemption After Obergefell (July 12, 2015)
- The Accreditation Battle Over Canada's First Christian Law School (Apr. 24, 2016)
- More On The Accreditation Battle Over Canada's First Christian Law School (June 5, 2016)
- Appeals Court Affirms Denial Of Accreditation Of Canada's First Christian Law School (June 30, 2016)
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There's nothing like the intolerance of the tolerant
Posted by: mike livingston | Jul 10, 2016 5:06:32 AM