Luncheon Speaker

Craig A. Stern, Professor of Law Regent University School of Law B.A., Yale University; J.D. University of Virginia

"THE RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF THE RULE OF LAW"
Professor Stern has served as Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, as Special Counsel and Director of Publications at the Constitutional Law Center, as Associate Editor of BENCHMARK, as Counsel to the Subcommittee on Separation Powers, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, as Assistant Deputy Director at the Legal and Administrative Agencies Group, Office of the President-elect Ronald Reagan and as an Associate Attorney at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman. Additionally, Mr. Stern has written numerous journal articles, notes, and monographs. He teaches jurisprudence, federal courts, conflict of laws, and criminal law.

Panel

William Brewbaker, Professor University of Alabama School of Law B.A. Vanderbilt University; J.D. University of Virginia; LL.M. Duke University

"THE TRIUNE GOD AND THE RULE OF LAW"
The rule of law can refer either to (i) the supremacy of law as a constitutional order that restrains, regulates and underscores the accountability of public officials, whether executives, legislators or judges or (ii) judges' duty to be law- finders, rather than law- makers.  Christians have every reason to celebrate the first conception of the rule of law. The second conception is more problematic. Drawing on recent theological work related to the Trinity, I will argue that although judges ought to be subject to the rule of law in the first sense described above, Christians should not endorse a robust conception of judges as law-finders.

Before joining the University of Alabama School of Law faculty in 1993, Professor Brewbaker practiced law in Birmingham with Bradley, Arant, Rose and White (1986-1988) and Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff, Byers and Brandt (1989-1992), and did graduate work in health care law at Duke University. He is co-editor (with Mark Hall) of two books in Aspen's Health Care Corporate Law series and has written law review articles dealing with health care antitrust, price regulation, physician unionization and managed care liability. During the 2001-2002 academic year, he was a Visitor of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, a Visiting Fellow of St. Edmund's College and a Member of Tyndale House. Professor Brewbaker regularly teaches courses in Health Care Law, Health Care Liability, Property and Jurisprudence. His research interests include health care and legal philosophy, including theological perspectives on law.

David Forte, Professor Cleveland-Marshall College of Law A.B.. Harvard College; M.A., University of Manchester; Ph.D., University of Toronto; J.D., Columbia University

"LAW AND SPIRITUALITY IN ISLAM"
Professor Forte served as Chief Counsel to the United States Delegation to the United Nations in 1985-86 and has been a Liberty Fund Fellow, a National Endowment to the Humanities Fellow, an Ohio Humanities Scholar, a Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage Foundation, and a Salvatori Fellow at the Free Congress Foundation. He has taught at Skidmore College and, since joining the Cleveland-Marshall faculty, has written and lectured on a wide range of topics, including international law, comparative law, Constitutional law, Islamic Law, medical ethics, natural law, and jurisprudence. He has also authored a number of amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court, has been active in helping to draft legislation and has testified numerous times before Congress and the Ohio State Legislature. Active in local governmental affairs, he is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Buckeye Institute. He is past chair of the Professional Ethics Committee of the Cleveland Bar Association, authoring numerous opinions on legal ethics.

Roundtables

Presenters:

Jeffrey J. Ventrella, Senior Vice President
Alliance Defense Fund
"The Rule and Role of Higher Law: When Stare Decisis Produces Injustice"

Peter Robinson
Pepperdine Law School

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Graduate and Faculty Ministries Staff Members