Brian Leiter, legal scholar and philosopher, will speak about religious toleration and religious claims of conscience at 1 p.m. Dec. 4 in Altgeld Hall, room 315, on the Northern Illinois University campus.

Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and director of Chicago’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values.

The program “Why Tolerate Religion?” is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the NIU Visitors lot.