BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.4.6.4//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-885@sites.udmercy.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T180000 DTSTAMP:20251008T201124Z URL:https://sites.udmercy.edu/campusconnection/events/26th-annual-mcelroy- lecture-on-law-and-religion/ SUMMARY:26th annual McElroy Lecture on Law and Religion DESCRIPTION:The McElroy Lecture on Law and Religion provides a forum for pr ominent thinkers to address fundamental issues of law and religion. The 26 th annual lecture is set for Thursday\, Oct. 23\, from 5-6 p.m. in Room 22 6 at the Riverfront Campus. A reception follows the lecture in the atrium. \n\nThis year’s lecture\, titled “Next Steps for Church Autonomy” w ill be presented by Stephanie Barclay\, professor of Law at Georgetown Un iversity Law School and faculty co-director of the Georgetown Center for t he Constitution. The annual McElroy Lecture is made possible through a beq uest from Detroit Mercy Law alumnus Philip J. McElroy.\n\nThis lecture wil l examine emerging frontiers in church autonomy jurisprudence across sever al critical contexts:\n\n the doctrine's application as a defense to defa mation suits arising from religious discipline\n tensions between ministe rial exception principles and employment protections\n the use of collate ral appeals to prevent process as punishment in autonomy disputes\n prope r judicial deference to internal religious governance.\n\nThe lecture expl ores potential doctrinal developments that would be important to both reli gious liberty and individual rights while avoiding the constitutional haza rds of excessive entanglement with religious affairs.\n\nBarclay's researc h focuses on the role our different democratic institutions play in protec ting minority rights\, particularly at the intersection of free speech and religious exercise. Her work is published or is forthcoming in leading jo urnals such as the Harvard Law Review\, the Chicago Law Review\, the Unive rsity of Pennsylvania Law Review and the Yale Law Journal Forum. Barclay is a faculty affiliate at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law S chool and a Nootbaar Fellow at the Nootbaar Institute on Law\, Religion\, and Ethics at Pepperdine University.\nRegister here. LOCATION:Room 226\, Riverfront Campus\, University of Detroit Mercy\, 651 E ast Jefferson Avenue\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48226\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=651 East Jefferson Avenue\, Detroit\, Michigan\, 48226\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Roo m 226\, Riverfront Campus\, University of Detroit Mercy:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR