Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall
435 West 116th Street, Room 105
New York, NY 10027
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/2RNJkLe
Co-hosted by the Law, Rights, and Religion Project and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University, this program will comprise a panel discussion with a diverse group of experts considering the role of religion in the immigrants’ rights movements of the 1980s and today.
In an era in which the idea of “religious liberty†has largely been co-opted by the Christian Right to signify protections for conservative beliefs about sex, marriage, and reproduction, what does “religious liberty†mean for undocumented people and immigration activists of faith? (How) should the law accommodate the religious belief that families and communities should not be torn apart by deportation, or that individuals have a right to migrate? Moreover, what effect will arguing for these rights in religious terms have on LGBTQ+ immigrants or immigrants who need reproductive health care?
Speakers include:
Lizbeth Mateo
Attorney and Immigrants Rights Activist
Winnie Varghese
Director of Justice and Reconciliation, Trinity Church Wall Street
Amy Gottlieb
Associate Regional Director, American Friends Service Committee
Rose Cuison Villazor
Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers Law School
2 NYS CLE (Continuing Legal Education) Credits will be available for eligible participants who complete appropriate CLE registration requirements.
This program is free and open to the public. Registration is required for CLE Participants, and recommended for all.
If you have any questions about this program, please contact Liz Boylan at
[email protected] or 212.854.0167. If you require any accommodations to participate in this program, please let Liz know at your earliest convenience, and we will strive to meet your needs.