Catholic Identity of Modern Law Schools: opportunities and challenges

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The goals of the research project are:

 

  • To identify and articulate the distinctive aspects of the modern Catholic law school in terms of its mission, teaching and scholarly approaches, and the Catholic perspective on the public discourse regarding democracy, rule of law and human rights;
  • To start and facilitate the discussion within the Consortium of Catholic Law Schools on how to offer an excellent education that combines faith and reason while also engaging an increasingly secular world;
  • To strengthen the capacity of UCU to develop and maintain a mission-driven Catholic law school and to play an active role in value-based legal education reform in Ukraine.

 

The outcomes of the research project will be:

 

  • Fuller conception of the breadth of Catholic law schools and their various interpretations of mission across Europe and the US. This research will be presented at the conference in June, refined based on comments and feedback from the conference, and subsequently published in the fall. This research not only will benefit the newer institutions in the partnership (such as UCU and the Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani University in Tbilisi), but also will guide older institutions to be conscious of their mission and be able to articulate its distinctiveness and purpose;
  • Framework for further scholarly discussion within the Consortium and the broader Catholic law school community through identification of practical and academic dilemmas where the Catholic perspective may have added value to society. The June 2023 conference will focus on the institutions and their Catholic identity. A future conference is envisioned to address more particular scholarship, such as the relationship between Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and the moral foundations of law, human rights law, the law of armed conflict, and criminal justice;
  • Refinement of the articulation of the UCU law school mission and further development of its curriculum, teaching methodology, and faculty training to become a role model of value-based legal education in Ukraine;
  • Impetus to build a community of Catholic law schools in Europe on the foundation of common values despite different historical backgrounds.

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