Thursday, Dec 2nd
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
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Our Special guest this week, Josh McDaniel, Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor, Director of Harvard Religious Freedom Clinic, will discuss:
Litigating and Settling Religious Freedom Cases
Professor Josh McDaniel of Harvard Law School will discuss the dynamics of litigating, negotiating, and resolving disputes in religious freedom cases. As Director of the Harvard Religious Freedom Clinic, Professor McDaniel leads teams of students in representing a diverse group of clients in legal matters arising from many different religious beliefs, practices, and circumstances. In this presentation, he will discuss the particular challenges and lessons learned from litigating and seeking to resolve cases on behalf of misunderstood and vulnerable clients facing challenges to the exercise of their faith.
Josh is the Director of Harvard Law School’s Religious Freedom Clinic, a pro bono program that gives students a hands-on, supervised experience representing a diverse group of clients in First Amendment and religious freedom cases.
Before entering clinical teaching, Josh clerked for the Honorable Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the Honorable Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In addition to serving as a staff attorney in the clinic’s inaugural semester in 2020, he was previously a trial litigator at Munger, Tolles & Olson and an appellate litigator at Horvitz & Levy, where he specialized in representing individual and organizational clients in both commercial and civil rights cases, with particular expertise in First Amendment and religious freedom issues.