3/13/07--The Boston College Law & Religion Program has announced that it will hold its inaugural conference on March 20, entitled Matters of Life and Death: Religion and Law at the Crossroads.  

The conference, to be held on the Law School's Newton campus in East Wing Building Room 120, will bring international scholars together to discuss law, religion and biotechnology.  It will be divided into two panel discussions on euthanasia and stem cell research.  A buffet lunch will be held for the symposium participants, as well as a dinner for the participants, faculty, student members and the program sponsor.  

About The Boston College Law & Religion Program
The Boston College Law & Religion Program is committed to a broad, open and diverse exploration of the intersection between law and religion. The program finds this mission in Boston College's Jesuit, Catholic identity and its distinctive commitment to scholarship on religion.

Conference Details
Keynote Speaker: Leon Kass
--Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social
   Thought and the College, University of Chicago
-- Former chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics

Participants
George Annas
Boston Univ. School of Public Health

Rabbi Irving Breitowitz
University of Maryland School of Law

John Haas
National Catholic Bioethics Center

Michael Moreland
Villanova University School of Law

Ted Peters
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Amedeo Santosuosso
State University of Pavia, Faculty of Law

O. Carter Snead
Notre Dame University Law School

Richard Stith
Valparaiso University School of Law

Schedule
9am - 10am      Check-In/ Continental Breakfast

10am - 12pm    Panel One: Euthanasia

12pm - 2pm      Lunch

2pm - 4pm        Panel Two: Stem Cell Research

4pm - 5pm        Keynote Address: Leon Kass

5pm                    Dinner

Contact
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Paige Renaghan at bclaw.alumni@bc.edu