Scholarship

The Becket Fund engages the academic community through the scholarly work of its attorneys in the United States, and through its sponsorship of the Becket Institute abroad.

At the Becket Institute

The Becket Institute in Rome supports scholarship on the legal, anthropological, philosophical, and political dimensions of religious liberty.  Past conferences have included:

• Religious Liberty and Relativism (Rome, 2005)
• Secularization: Philosophical Foundations, Historical Backgrounds, and Contemporary Challenges (Oxford, 2003)
• Truth and Freedom:  Toward a Common Understanding Among Muslims, Jews and Christians (Washington, 2002)
• Church as Politeia: The Political Self-Understanding of Christianity (Oxford, 2000)
• Religious Liberty and the Ideology of the State (Prague, 2000)
• Pluralism and Religious Liberty (Jerusalem, 1997)
• Secularism and Religious Liberty (Rome, 1995)

To find out more about publications, papers, research, seminars, and academic conferences, contact The Becket Institute at info@becketinstitute.org.

Legal Scholarship

Becket Fund attorneys regularly publish law review articles and present scholarly lectures at think tanks and major law schools.

Read Founder and Chairman Seamus Hasson's book on the history of religious liberty in the United States, The Right to be Wrong:  Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America (Encounter Press 2005).