“Religious Liberty Under Siege”
In this lecture, Dr. Glendon will argue that commitment to religious liberty is weakening both internationally and domestically. This “first of freedoms” is in serious danger of becoming a second-class right, too easily trumped by other rights, claims, and interests in the West and too often violently attacked in other parts of the world.
Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. She currently serves on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and writes and teaches in the fields of human rights, law, and political theory. Her widely translated works include The Forum and the Tower, Traditions in Turmoil, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, A Nation Under Lawyers, and Rights Talk. She is a highly sought-after lecturer and adviser on vital matters of law and political philosophy the world over.