The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law will present a lecture by Nelson Tebbe of Brooklyn and Cornell Law Schools on Wednesday, March 4 as part of its annual McElroy Lecture Series on Law and Religion.
The lecture, entitled “Religion and Social Coherentism: A Progressive Theory of Religious Freedom,” begins at 5:00 p.m. in Room 226 of UDM Law. The lecture is complimentary and open to the public.
Tebbe is a professor at Brooklyn Law School and visiting professor at Cornell Law School. He teaches courses on constitutional law, religious freedom, freedom of speech, legal theory, and professional responsibility.
His scholarship focuses on constitutional law and, in particular, the relationship between religious traditions and democratic governments, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Tebbe is co-organizer of the Annual Law and Religion Roundtable and he serves on the board of consultants of the Journal of Religion, which is peer edited and published at the University of Chicago.
Before teaching, Tebbe clerked for Judge John M. Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced law at the American Civil Liberties Union and at Davis Polk & Wardwell.
He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Tebbe received his bachelor of arts degree from Brown University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Religious Studies and his juris doctor degree from Yale Law School.
He also received a Ph.D. in Anthropology and the Sociology of Religion from the University of Chicago, with distinction.
In February of 1998, the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law began the McElroy Lecture Series to address prominent issues of religion, law, and society.
UDM Law is located at 651 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit.
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