The annual Law and the Gospel of Life lecture, which was inaugurated last year by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, will take place Friday, May 31 at the Fordham School of Law.
This year’s lecture will be delivered by Erika Bachiochi, a legal scholar on American constitutional law and feminist legal theory, and the author of The Cost of Choice: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion(Encounter Books, 2004), and Women, Sex & the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching. (Pauline Books & Media, 2010).
She will offer an approach to sexual equality and reproductive justice inspired by Catholic principles of embodiedness, sexual equality in difference, and solidarity.
A response will be delivered by Kathleen Scanlon, adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law. The lecture is sponsored by the Fordham Law Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer’s Work.
Law and the Gospel of Life II
Friday, May 31
6 p.m.
McNally Ampitheatre, Fordham School of Law, Lincoln Center campus
To rsvp, e-mail lawreligion@law.fordham.edu or call (212) 636-7699.
