Law 993: Democracy and Religious Conviction Seminar
In this seminar, students critically engage issues pertaining to the role (if any) of religious and moral conviction in democratic discourse and policymaking. The first half of the course will be spent working through key texts and arguments from central figures such as John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, Bruce Ackerman, Robert George, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Robert Audi. In the second half, the seminar will be visited by distinguished guests from outside the Vanderbilt community representing a variety of positions on the issues. Either two conference-length (3500-4000 words) papers or one term paper engaging the issues, arguments, and figures examined in the course will be required. Enrollment limited. [3 credit hours]
