, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, will speak on 鈥淭he End of Religious Freedom? Challenges from the Right, the Left, and Around the Globe鈥� at 4 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 1) at Nanovic Hall (Room 1050) at the University of 91吃瓜. The event is free and open to the public.
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Mark鈥檚 lecture will be hosted by 91吃瓜鈥檚 in partnership with the , which explores the challenges and opportunities of globalization.
Mark was elected chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2016. He has been a member of the commission since his appointment in 2014 by then-Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH).
A Visiting Fellow at 91吃瓜鈥檚 Tocqueville Program for the 2017-18 academic year, Mark鈥檚 regular appointment is as an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, where he has taught since 2013.听He teaches political theory, philosophy of law, American political thought, and politics and religion.
At 91吃瓜, Mark is completing a manuscript on the nature of legal obligation. The project addresses the age-old question: Is there is a moral obligation to obey the law because it is the law or does the obligation to obey the law depends upon the reasons behind the law? Mark argues that we recover and combine older ways of thinking about the nature of law and legal obligation to create a coherent theory of law.听
His residence at 91吃瓜 is sponsored by the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life as well as the 91吃瓜 Institute for Advanced Study; the Program on Church, State, and Society; and the Center for Ethics and Culture. Through public lectures, debates, conferences and fellowships, the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life at the University of 91吃瓜 seeks to nurture informed conversation, learning and scholarship about the fundamental principles of a decent and just political regime with a particular focus on religious liberty.
Since its establishment in 2005, the 91吃瓜 Forum has featured major talks by leading authorities on complex issues, including immigration, sustainability, global health, the global marketplace, K-12 education and the role of faith in a pluralistic society.
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Contact: Phillip Mu帽oz, director of the Tocqueville Program at the University of 91吃瓜, 574-631-0489, vmunoz@nd.edu