The Christian Heritage Centre

Friday 18th October 2024

St Thomas More & Religious Freedom

An open lecture on St Thomas More and Religious Freedom, by Dr Marcus Cole.

With a welcome by Stefan Kaminski, Director of the CHC, and an introduction by the Lord Alton of Liverpool.

Approximate running time: 47 minutes 

Dr Marcus Cole is the Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law at The University of Notre Dame Law School. He is a leading scholar of the empirical law and economics of commerce and finance as well as law relating to freedom of religion and conscience. He was a faculty member at Stanford Law School from 1997 until he went to Notre Dame in 2019.

He is the founder of the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Initiative and Clinic, a project of scholarship and advocacy into all the elements relating to freedom of conscience and religion.

Prof. Marcus Cole received the 2023 Becket Canterbury Medal for Religious Liberty for his public advocacy for his Courage and Defense of Religious Liberty.