(Updated January 2, 2002)

A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty
January 25, 2002
The University of Chicago Divinity School
Swift Hall       1025 East 58th Street       Chicago, IL 60637

Session One: 9:00am
Faith Traditions and the Death Penalty

(Chair: Jean Bethke Elshtain)
Khaled Abou El Fadl, UCLA School of Law
Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Fordham University
Gilbert Meilaender, Valparaiso University
David Novak, University of Toronto

Lunch Break/Session: 12:30pm
Special lunch address by Hon. Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma

Box lunches will be provided free of charge to the first 250 guests who register.

Session Two: 1:30pm
Religion, Justice and the Death Penalty

(Chair: Jean Bethke Elshtain)
Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt Divinity School
J. Budziszewski, University of Texas (Austin)
Richard Garnett, University of Notre Dame Law School

Session Three: 4:00pm
Religion, Politics, and the Death Penalty

(Chair: E.J. Dionne)
Hon. Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, United State Supreme Court
Hon. Paul Simon, Southern Illinois University; former U.S. Senator (D-IL)
Beth Wilkinson, Prosecutor, Oklahoma City bombing trials; Co-Chair, The Constitution Project’s Death Penalty Initiative

Reception to follow