The University of Portland welcomes law professor Steven Green who will give our annual Constitution Day lecture. His talk is entitled:
“The Demise of Separation of Church and State as a Legal Theorem.”
The lecture will be delivered Thursday, September 16, at 5:00 p.m. in the Brian Doyle Lecture Hall (DB 004).
Green is one of the country’s foremost experts on the First Amendment Religious Clauses. He is the Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willamette University, where he teaches courses in Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Criminal Law, Legal History, and American Religious History. He has a JD from the University of Texas and a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina, and has authored numerous scholarly works, including his most recent: The Third Disestablishment: Church, State, and American Culture (2018) and Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding (2015), both published by Oxford University Press. Before coming to Willamette, Green served for 10 years as legal director and special counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington, DC, public interest organization that concentrates on First Amendment issues. In this capacity, he participated in several of the most important religious liberty and religious establishment cases to be litigated before the US Supreme Court.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Political Science & Global Affairs and was made possible by a grant from the Jack Miller Center.