PROGRAMME
Tuesday 11th March
12.00 Buffet lunch
1.30 Session One: Contemporary Issues
Chair: Norman Doe
Gillian Douglas, ‘Christian, Secular or Multi-Cultural? Legal Approaches to the Family and Religion in England and Wales’
Mark Hill, ‘Rent Assunder: Westminster’s War on the Sacrament of Marriage’
Grace Davie, ‘Understanding Religion in Modern Europe: The Factors to Take Into Account’
3.00 Tea / Coffee
3.30 Session Two: History, Theology and Law
Chair: Mark Hill
Richard Helmholz, ‘The Role of Conscience in Practice: Its History in the Medieval and Early Modern Ecclesiastical Courts’
John Witte, ‘The Perils of Celibacy: Clerical Celibacy and Marriage in Early Protestant Perspective and Today’
Norman Doe, ‘The Concept of Family in Ecclesiology and Canon Law’
5.00 End
7.00 Centre for Law and Religion Tenth Anniversary Dinner
Wednesday 12th March
9.30 Session Three: New Religious Movements, Culture and Bioethics
Chair: Norman Doe
Peter Edge, ‘Inheriting Authenticity: The Family, Law and Religion’
Ian Leigh, ‘Culture Wars UK: Religious Dissent, Conscience and Same-Sex Relationships’
Marco Ventura, Title TBC
11.00 Tea /Coffee
11.30 Session Four: International Perspectives
Chair: Mark Hill
Javier Martinez Torron, ‘Family and Religion in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights’
Malcolm Evans, Title TBC
12.30 Buffet Lunch
1.30 End
