John H. Garvey (Dean, Boston College School of Law)
"The Right and the Good"

John H. Garvey is Professor of Law and Dean at Boston College Law School, as well as President of the Association of American Law Schools.  He graduated from the University of Notre Dame (1970) and Harvard Law School (1974).  After law school, he clerked for Irving R. Kaufman on the Second Circuit, and later served as Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States.  He was a law professor at the University of Kentucky, the University of Michigan, and the University of Notre Dame before moving to Boston College in 1999.  He has published numerous articles and book chapters on law, religion, and constitutional theory, and is author of the 1996 book, What Are Freedoms For? (Harvard University Press).  In 2006, he co-authored Religion and the Constitution (Aspen, 2nd ed.), and in 2007 he co-authored Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church (Crossroad).

Commentators: to be announced

This lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception.  Attorneys may obtain CLE credits (2 non-transitional ethics credits) for attending this event.  The cost for CLE credit is $65 (or $55 for Fordham Law Alumni & public interest attorneys).
In order to register for CLE credit, please send any e-mail note to cle@law.fordham.edu, or visit the following web-site and browse to the program for October 28, 2008:
http://law.fordham.edu/cle.htm

A reception will immediately follow the lecture and discussion.