The Witherspoon Institute
Protecting Institutional
Religious Conscience

June 3-4, 2011
Princeton, New Jersey

Organized by
The Task Force on Conscience Protection
of the
The William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution
of the
Witherspoon Institute

For more information about the consultation,
please email Lauren Wilson at lwilson@winst.org


In the spring of 2011, the Witherspoon Institute will convene a private consultation of its Task Force on Conscience Protection, at Princeton University. The Task Force is chaired by Helen Alvar, a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute and an associate professor of family law at George Mason University.

Joining the deliberations of the task force will be distinguished scholars and advocates of the rights of conscience, including:
Matthew Bowman, Alliance Defense Fund
Gerard V. Bradley, Notre Dame Law School
Farr Curlin, The University of Chicago
Richard Doerflinger, Unites States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Bishop Anthony Fisher, Diocese of Paramatta, Australia
Richard Garnett, Notre Dame Law School   
R. Kent Greenawalt, Columbia Law School
Kevin J. Hasson, The Becket Fund
Allen Hertzke, University of Oklahoma
Donald Landry, Columbia University Medical Center
Yuval Levin, The Ethics and Public Policy Center
Leonard J. Nelson, Cumberland School of Law
Anthony Picarello, Unites States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Daniel Sulmasy, The University of Chicago
Christopher Tollefsen, University of South Carolina
Robert Vischer, University of St. Thomas - Minnesota