Dean Jeffrey E. Lewis and the faculty of
Saint Louis University School of Law
and the members of the
Saint Louis University Law Journal

cordially invite you to attend
the 2009 Richard J. Childress MEMORIAL LECTURE

Remaking Law: Moving Beyond Enlightenment Jurisprudence

by Lecturer Professor john a. powell

Friday, October 2, 2009
William H. Kniep Courtroom

Professor john a. powell’s lecture will highlight a day-long conference on “Remaking Law: Moving Beyond a Jurisprudence of the Enlightenment.”  Professor powell is the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Moritz College of Law and the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. 

Professor powell’s lecture and following panels consisting of a distinguished interdisciplinary collection of scholars will consider the extent to which many of the assumptions and doctrines of the U.S. legal system are based upon ideas which recent developments in social and natural sciences have called into question.   This unique day-long symposium  will examine the various  Enlightenment concepts which serve as the foundation for much of  American jurisprudence and consider the extent to which those premises reflect subsequent  developments in the social and natural sciences.   

The program will consider this question with reference to a number of contemporary areas of American law and will consider how the law might be revised to accommodate 21st-century thought and principles.

For more information, call Susie Lee at 314-977-3964
or by e-mail lees2@slu.edu