THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY For Law & Public Policy Studies presents

 James Sonne

"The Law and Culture of Religious Liberty"

With Commentary by Professor Mary Anne Case

Food provided.

Jim Sonne is a professor at Stanford law school, and he direct its Religious Liberty Clinic. Professor Sonne gradated from Duke University with honors and got his JD from Harvard Law School with honors. He clerked for Judge Edith Brown Clement on the Fifth Circuit. He later became an associate professor at Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan and worked at Horvitz & Levy in Los Angeles and McGuireWoods in Richmond, Virginia. Professor Sonne published  articles in the Clinical Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and Georgia Law Review along with shorter pieces in the Harvard Law Review, Oxford Journal of Church and State, and New England Journal of Medicine. His work has also been featured by the New York Times, National Law Journal, and California Lawyer.

Mary Anne Case graduated from Yale College and the Harvard Law School and studied at the University of Munich. She litigated for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York and was professor of law and Class of 1966 Research Professor at the University of Virginia before joining the University of Chicago Law School faculty. She has also served as a visiting professor at New York University, Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in spring 2004, Crane Fellow in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University for the 2006-07 academic year, Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in spring 2013, and Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in spring 2016. The subjects she has taught include feminist jurisprudence, constitutional law, regulation of sexuality, marriage, family law, sex discrimination, religious freedom, and European legal systems. She is the convenor of the Workshop on Regulating Family, Sex, and Gender. While her diverse research interests include German contract law, theological anthropology, and the First Amendment, her scholarship to date has concentrated on the regulation of sex, gender, sexuality, religion, and the family; and on the early history of feminism.