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Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago and Jenner & Block, LLP A panel discussion featuring James R. Stoner and respondents Justice Mary Jane Theis, Dan Cronin, and Larry Suffredin. A dynamic society accords respect to political activities and the choice of a career in politics, and it needs to do so for society to thrive. Politics is held in low repute today, breeding contempt for the day-to-day activities of citizens and politicians involved in the making of law and public policy. Self-government is a great achievement; both rare and fragile, it is only achieved by the virtue of...

REGISTER HERE Free and open to the public a panel discussion with James Q. Whitman, Yale University Law School Respondents Hon. Tom Dart,Cook County Sheriff Hon. Colleen Sheehan, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Kim Foxx, Former Assistant State’s Attorney, Juvenile Justice Division, and Former Chief of Staff to President of Cook County Board, Toni Preckwinkle Hon. Ann M. Burke (moderator), Illinois Supreme Court Justice Cosponsored by The Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago and The John Howard Association Criminal punishment in America has become harsh and degrading–more so than any other western democracy. Executions and long prison terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France...

Gary A. Anderson (University of Notre Dame; author of Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition) It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor. Though ancient Greeks and Romans were also generous, they funded theaters and baths rather than poorhouses and orphanages. How might we explain this difference? In this significant reappraisal of charity in the biblical tradition, Gary Anderson argues that the poor constituted the privileged place where Jews and Christians met God. Though concerns for social justice were not unknown to early Jews and Christians, the poor achieved...