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School to celebrate Schenk Endowed Chair in Taxation

Wayne State University Law School Dean Richard Bierschbach, John Grant, John Collins, and Joe Angileri will celebrate Alan Schenk and the successful creation of the Alan S. Schenk Endowed Chair in Taxation at the Wayne Law.

The Schenk Chair Celebration will take place Tuesday, October 24, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Wayne Law’s Spencer Partrich Auditorium, 471 W. Palmer in Detroit.

Registration is requested by October 20.  

To register, visit https://law.wayne.edu and click on “events.”

Anyone with questions may email Mike Sickles at mike.sickles@wayne.edu.


Lecture examines ‘Religious Lawyering in a Polarized World’

The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law will host the 24th annual McElroy Lecture on Tuesday, October 24, from 5 to 6 p.m. in room 226 at Detroit Mercy Law, 651 East Jefferson Ave. in Detroit.  A reception will follow the lecture in the atrium.  

This year’s lecture, titled “Religious Lawyering in a Polarized World” will be presented by Dr. Amy Uelmen.

Building on the seminal work of Tom Shaffer (“On Being a Christian a Lawyer,” 1981), the late 1990s and early 2000s saw a very creative ferment in reflection on how religious values might inform legal education and the practice of law. Much of this “religious lawyering” work relied on core presumptions and convictions about the foundations of the Rule of Law, liberal democracy, and the legal profession’s capacity to welcome and critically discuss differing approaches to professional life. This lecture will consider how cultural and political changes in the intervening years have arguably tested some of these assumptions, and in light of that history, probe what religious lawyering insights might contribute to current debates in legal ethics and approaches to professional life.

Uelmen is the director for Mission & Ministry at Georgetown Law, a lecturer in Religion & Professional Life, and a Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. She is the author of numerous academic and popular publications, including “Five Steps to Healing Polarization in the Classroom,” with New City Press. Her BA, JD, and SJD are from Georgetown, and her MA in Theology is from Fordham.

The McElroy Lecture on Law and Religion provides a forum for prominent thinkers to address fundamental issues of law and religion. The annual McElroy Lecture is made possible through a bequest from Detroit Mercy Law alumnus Philip J. McElroy.

To register for the October 24 lecture, visit https://law.udmercy.edu and scroll down to “Upcoming Events.”

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