{"id":11206,"date":"2010-08-13T10:44:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2010-08-13T10:44:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T15:44:42","slug":"yet-another-law-school-with-a-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/08\/yet-another-law-school-with-a-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Law School with a Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There is apparently a new Christian law school coming on line <\/a>– this one affiliated with Louisiana College. It will be apparently be housed in a vacant federal courthouse in Shreveport.\u00a0 The school apparently will have a “biblical worldview”\u00a0 and\u00a0“train future lawyers to defend conservative Christian values in courtrooms and politics.”<\/p>\n

Writing at the Mirror of Justice, Rob Vischer <\/a>wishes that the new school would train Christian lawyers to “advocate for\u00a0culturally transformative and difficult-to-pin-down-on-the-American-political-spectrum\u00a0Christian values.”<\/p>\n

At the risk of causing draws to drop, this seems right to me. I don’t think that it is meaningless to adopt a Christian approach to law and policy. As I suggest in a recent symposium piece in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal, it will require that certain questions be asked and that certain assumptions be either acknowledged or ruled out. It will not imply that one be a Democrat or Republican or a liberal or conservative.<\/p>\n

Responding to Rob’s comments, Matt Bowman, a bright young lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund specializing in life issues, argues that a “conservative biblical view” implies certain positions on things like abortion and family, but is not synonymous with conservatism writ large. I trust that the new Judge Paul Pressler School of Law at Louisiana College will keep this observations in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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