June 27, 2005
American Constitution Society& Center for American Progress Brown Bag Lunch Series
Religious Discrimination in Government-Funded Employment
Monday, June 27, 2005, Noon-1:30pm
385 Russell Senate Office Building
Please RSVP
This event will feature Professor Alan E. Brownstein of University of California (Davis) Law School, who will discuss the federal constitutional issues raised when the government permits religious groups to discriminate on the basis of religion with regard to publicly subsidized jobs. This issue already has been the subject of several votes in the House of Representatives and may come to the floor of the Senate this summer.
Along with Professor Vikram Amar of University of California, Hastings College of Law, Professor Brownstein has written a series of articles that were recently published by findlaw.com on this timely and important issue and be read on the ACS blog.
This is the first in a series of brown bag lunches for Capitol Hill staff sponsored jointly by the American Constitution Society and the Center for American Progress.
For more information, please contact, Dan Restrepo, Director of Congressional Affairs at the Center for American Progress, at 202-741-6384 or [email protected].
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is one of the nation’s leading progressive legal organizations. Founded in 2001, ACS is comprised of law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, policymakers, activists and other concerned individuals who are working to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice are in their rightful, central place in American law. The American Constitution Society is a non-partisan, non-profit educational organization. We do not, as an organization, lobby, litigate or take positions on specific issues, cases, legislation or nominations. We do encourage our members to express their views and make their voices heard.
The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all. We believe that Americans are bound together by a common commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure that our national policies reflect these values. We work to find progressive and pragmatic solutions to significant domestic and international problems and develop policy proposals that foster a government that is “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”