/nootbaar/news_events/news/ Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics - News en-us Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:32:17 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss OmniUpdate (OU Publish) http://law.pepperdine.edu/news-events/news/2011/02/freedom.htm Pepperdine’s Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics will host the conference, "A Call for International Religious Freedom" on Friday, February 25, in Malibu, California. The keynote speakers will be Suzan Johnson Cook and Representative Frank Wolf. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:32:00 -0800 http://law.pepperdine.edu/news-events/news/2011/02/bible.htm Pepperdine University School of Law will present the forum "The Bible and the Law" on February 11 to 12 in Malibu, California. The forum will serve as a working conference for the authors of upcoming book, The Bible and the Civil Law, which will be co-edited by Robert F. Cochran, Jr., Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:30:00 -0800 http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar/news-events/news/2010/01-justice.htm Pepperdine University's Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics will host "The Role of the Church in Doing Justice," on February 19, 2010 at the School of Law in Malibu, California. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 8:57:08 -0700 http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar/news_events/news/012009_nootbaar.html The Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics hosted a conference titled "Religious Liberty and Religious Property Disputes: Who Owns the Lord's House?" on January 30, in Malibu, California.The keynote speaker was Kent Greenawalt of Columbia Law School. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:58:20 -0800 http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar/news_events/archive/religious_faith/religiousfaith.html Three days after the inauguration of President Barack Obama, the Herbert and Elinor Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics brought two of Pepperdine's most lauded experts in law and rhetoric together in a forum titled "Obama, Religious Faith, and the Public Square: A Conversation with Doug Kmiec and John Jones," which took place on Friday, Jan. 23, before a standing-room-only crowd. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:44:26 -0800 http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar/news_events/news/082008_cochran.html Bob Cochran, the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law and director of the Herb and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics, was featured in the August issue of Christianity Today in an article titled "Redeeming Law." Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:36:34 -0800 http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar/news_events/news/brandeis/brandeis08.html "Hungering For Righteousness: What Can A Lawyer Believe About, And Hope From, Law?" Many people feel called to law practice because they sense that law can be an avenue for helping others and improving society. This is almost always true for persons of faith pursuing a career in the law. But what should the lawyer of faith hope for, and expect from, law? Within the Christian tradition, several long-established theologies give very different answers to the question of what law can do in this world. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Wed, 7 May 2008 08:30:39 -0800 http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar/news_events/news/022008_higherlaw.html Pepperdine's Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics will host a conference titled, "Is there a Higher Law? Does it Matter?" on Feb. 22 and 23 at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. The conference will bring together law professors, judges, theologians, economists, historians, and philosophers to discuss the implications of the higher law question. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:26:00 -0800 http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar/news_events/news/genocide.html As a Nazi hunter, Wiesenthal's life work was to pursue justice for the perpetrators of genocide. His life and his work embody issues at the crossroads between genocide and religion - issues such as justice, vengeance, forgiveness, justification, and responsibility. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:58:51 -0800 http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar/news_events/news/112007_asylum_conference.html Pepperdine University's Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics will host a symposium examining religious-based claims for asylum entitled "Asylum: A Home for the Oppressed," on Nov. 9 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Graziadio Executive Center on Pepperdine's Malibu campus. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Mon, 5 Nov 2007 15:15:00 -0800 http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar/news_events/news/112007_nootbaar_dedication.html Pepperdine University will host the official dedication of the Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics with a dedicatory address by Dr. Os Guinness on Nov. 8 at 4 p.m. at the School of Law in Malibu. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:01:00 -0800 http://law.pepperdine.edu/nootbaar/news_events/news/082007_Nootbaar.html Pepperdine University School of Law has announced that Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar of Laguna Beach, California, have endowed the Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics with a generous $5 million gift. Emily Di Frisco <emily.difrisco@pepperdine.edu> Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:01:00 -0800