Journal of Law & Religion Symposium on the Global Economic Crisis, Law and the Religious Traditions
October 16, 2009The Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work cosponsored the Journal of Law & Religion Symposium on the Global Economic Crisis, Law and the Religious Traditions, which was held on October 14-16, 2009 at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The program explored insights from the world's religious traditions on the role of law and legal institutions in stemming the worldwide economic crisis.
The keynote speaker was Dr. Luigino Bruni, winner of a 2008 Templeton Enterprise Award and author of Reciprocity, Altruism and Civil Society (2008), Civil Happiness: Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective (2007), and A Handbook on the Economics of Happiness (2007).
Panels discussed
- Perspectives of the world's religions on legal responses to the economic crisis.
- Human rights traditions, economic need and the common good.
- Regulating markets through law and the religious traditions.
- Religion, culture and law: how local communities respond to economic need and opportunity.
