The Cato Institute, Solomon’s Decree: Conflicts in Adoption and Child Placement Policy Conference, Washington, D.C. “Taking Children Out of the Culture War By Rethinking the Funding of Placement Services” (Robin Fretwell Wilson, co-convener with Walter Olson)
*Featured in the DESERET NEWS (July 30, 2018); Forbes (Jul 30, 2018) and WALL STREET JOURNAL (August 3, 2018)
July 19, 2018
Connecticut Law Review 2017 Symposium on Religious Freedom Restoration Act’s 25th Anniversary, Hartford, Connecticut. Panel on State RFRA Laws: Liberty Legislation & Litigation. Presented “Religious Freedom and LGBT Nondiscrimination: RFRA’s Inability To Prevent Collisions” (Robin Fretwell Wilson)
October 20, 2017
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana. Panel, “The Indiana Nondiscrimination Bill and the Utah Compromise: Are They Striking the Right Balance Between Religious Freedom and LGBT Protections?” (Robin Fretwell Wilson, co-hosted by Labor and Employment Law Society, OUTLaw, the LGBT Project, the Christian Legal Society, and Federalist Society)
February 1, 2016
University of Minnesota School of Law, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Law and Inequality Symposium, “Squaring Faith and Sexuality in Religious Institutions: The Unique Challenge of Sports” (Robin Fretwell Wilson, co-sponsored by the Minnesota Vikings and Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice)
November 6, 2015
Washington & Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia. Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Symposium 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & Voting Rights Act of 1965: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. “Bargaining For Civil Rights: Lessons From Mrs. Murphy For Same-Sex Marriage And LGBT Rights” (Robin Fretwell Wilson)
February 20, 2015
Yale University Trumbull College Residential College Seminar Program, New Haven, Connecticut. Guest Lecture in Seminar “On Gay Rights, God and Abortion: Constitutional Rights and the Culture Wars” (a dinner conversation about “Religious Liberty and Same-Sex Marriage”) (Robin Fretwell Wilson)
February 15, 2015
First Amendment Center at the Newseum, Washington, D.C. Panel Discussion of Gay Rights and Religious Freedom (Robin Fretwell Wilson)
*Featured in Gay Rights and Religious Freedom Take the Stage, MOMENT (June 12, 2014); A Moment Magazine Symposium on Gay Rights & Religious Freedom, MOMENT (July/Aug. 2014)
May 28, 2014
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio. Law Review Symposium on “The Supreme Court’s Treatment of Same-Sex Marriage in United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry: Analysis and Implications.” “Marriage of Necessity: Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty Protections” (Robin Fretwell Wilson)
October 25, 2013
Oxford University, Harris-Manchester College, Oxford, England. Discussant at Roundtable on “Parallel Sovereignties: Coexistence of Religious and Non-religious Legal Systems” under the umbrella of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion and the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College. “Privatizing Family Law in the Name of Religion” (Robin Fretwell Wilson)
June 19, 2013
International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family, Cardozo University School of Law, New York City, New York. Symposium on the “Jurisprudence of Family Relations: Privacy, Autonomy, and Should States Regulate Family Relations?” “The Erupting Clash Between Religion and the State Over Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion” (Robin Fretwell Wilson)
June 10-11, 2013
Doha, Qatar, Symposium on “Jurisprudence of Extended Families, Extending Families and Intergenerational Solidarity.” “Should The State be Neutral When Families, Based on Religious Understandings, Seek to Shift Duties of Support upon Divorce or Death from Spouses to the Extended Family?” (Robin Fretwell Wilson)
April 22-23, 2012
University of Oklahoma School of Law, Norman, Oklahoma. Constitutional Studies Symposium on Religious Freedom in America: Constitutional Traditions and New Horizons. “The Erupting Clash Between Religion and the State Over Contraception, Sterilization and Abortion” (Robin Fretwell Wilson)
April 2, 2012
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, Illinois. Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, Symposium on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Accommodation: Determining the Role of the Legislature. Presented “Lowering the Temperature on the Same-Sex Marriage Debate” (Robin Fretwell Wilson)
November 12, 2009