The George Washington Forum presents a Constitution Day lecture by Steven D. Smith on “The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom” on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Galbreath Chapel.
Steven D. Smith
Smith is the Warren Distinguished Professor Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he also is the co-executive director of USD’s Institute for Law and Religion and Institute for Law and Philosophy. He earned his J.D. from Yale University after doing his undergraduate work at Brigham Young. Before moving to USD in 2002, he was was the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School and was the Byron R. White Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law.
Smith’s books include The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse (Harvard , 2010); Law’s Quandary (Harvard, 2004); and Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom (Oxford, 1995). His latest book is The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom (Harvard University Press, 2014).
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