A Discussion with the authors of “Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools’ Importance in Urban America”

When: September 18th, 2014; 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

Where: Penn Newman Center (3720 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia)

Featuring:

Dr. Margaret F. Brinig is the Fritz Duda Family Chair in Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and a J.D. from Seton Hall University. Her research integrates law and social sciences in empirical studies of families, social capital, and social welfare legislation. She serves on the executive board of the International Society of Family Law and is a Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to more than a hundred shorter works, her most recent book is Family, Law, and Community: Supporting the Covenant (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

Dr. Nicole Stelle Garnett is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. Her teaching and research focus on property, land use, urban development, local government law, and education policy. She is the author of numerous of articles on these subjects and of Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration of Urban America (Yale University Press, 2009). At Notre Dame, Professor Garnett also is a Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Senior Policy Coordinator for the Alliance for Catholic Education. From 2008-2010, she served as Provost Fellow at Notre Dame, and, in 2007, was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

The event will be moderated by Rev. Timothy Scully, Director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives.

Reception to follow.

Sponsored by:

Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture,

Robert A. Fox Leadership Program — Faith and Service Partners,

Penn Newman Center,

the Alliance for Catholic Education,