Law & Grace
The Law & Grace lecture this afternoon looked pretty interesting to start with, but has been getting resounding endorsements from most of our professors, including Klarman, who called William Stuntz one of the few people who knows anything. Manny Ramirez is probably not one of those people right now. Here's the abstract:
Theologically conservative Christians believe in a religion of grace. But conservative Christian politics in our time has been far from grace-like, and America’s legal system in an age in which Christians enjoy enormous influence over law and government is more punitive than at any time in American history. Why have religious believers whose faith is founded on grace and mercy been so quick to embrace rules and punishments as tools of social reform? Were they (or we: I share that faith) right to do so? Can a legal system actually be grace-like? What would such a system look like, and how would it function? I’d like to take a stab at answering those questions, briefly. The key to the answers lies in the sometimes surprising relationship between law and grace.
It's similar to the relationship between Will and Grace, but with less gay stuff. Or more! 420p in Caplin Pavillion.
