A podcast from the Denise ‘90 and Michael ‘91 Mattone Center for Law and Religion hosted by Center Director Mark Movsesian. For more information please visit the Law and Religion Forum, the blog of the Mattone Center for Law and Religion at St. John's Law.

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Submissions from 2024

Legal Spirits 063: Ethnic Cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh, One Year Later, Mark L. Movsesian

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Legal Spirits 062: Can a Public School Ask Kids to State Their Religion?, Mark L. Movsesian

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Legal Spirits 061: Is a Catholic Charter School Constitutional?, Mark L. Movsesian

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Legal Spirits 060: Memorial Day, the Knights of Columbus, and the National Park Service, Mark L. Movsesian

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Legal Spirits 059: Daniel McCarthy on “the Other Nones”, Mark L. Movsesian

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Legal Spirits 058: Law & Justice in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”, Mark L. Movsesian

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Legal Spirits 057: Historian Richard Brookhiser on Religious Freedom in America, Mark L. Movsesian

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Legal Spirits 056: Can the NY State Thruway Ban Chick-fil-A?, Mark L. Movsesian

Submissions from 2023

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Legal Spirits 055: Speaker Mike Johnson on the Separation of Church and State, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits 054: Is Classical Law Due for a Comeback?, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits 053: Tom Berg on Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits 052: SCOTUS Decides Groff and 303 Creative, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits 051: The Biden Administration’s Guidance on Prayer in Public Schools, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits 050: Groff v. DeJoy and Religious Accommodation in the Workplace, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits 049: A Canticle for Leibowitz & After Virtue, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits 048: The Rise of the Nones and American Law, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 047: “Christianity and Constitutionalism”, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

Submissions from 2022

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Legal Spirits Episode 046: Sunday Closing Laws and New Year’s Eve, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 045: 303 Creative at SCOTUS Next Week, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 044: Traditionalism Rising, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 043: The New Thoreaus, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 042: Two Blockbuster Decisions at SCOTUS, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 041: Learning in War-Time, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 040: Raising the Christian Flag at City Hall, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 039: Praying on the 50-Yard Line (Again), Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

Submissions from 2021

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Legal Spirits Episode 038: Law & Religion in “The Merchant of Venice”, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 037: The NY COVID Vaccine Mandates and Religious Exemptions, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits 036: Looking Back and Ahead at Law and Religion Cases at the Supreme Court, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 035: With Gerald Russello of the University Bookman, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 034: An Interview with Sohrab Ahmari, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 033: Augustine and Our Common Loves, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 032: The New Technocracy, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 031: The Biden Inauguration, Civil Religion & the Religious Left, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

Submissions from 2020

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Legal Spirits Episode 030: Supreme Court Blocks NY’s Covid Restrictions on Churches, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 029: “What It Means to Be Human”–a Discussion with Professor Carter Snead, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 028: Oral Argument in Fulton v. Philadelphia, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 027: Contemporary America and Late Imperial Rome, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 026: Law in “A Man for All Seasons”, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 025: Supreme Court Law and Religion Roundup, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 024: Church Closings in the Time of Coronavirus–Part II, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 023: Journalist Kelsey Dallas on Religion in America Today, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 022: Church Closings in the Time of Coronavirus, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 021: The New Little Sisters of the Poor Case (featuring Prof. Kevin Walsh), Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 020: A New Case That May Alter Free Exercise Doctrine, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 019: Oral Argument in the Blaine Amendments Case, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 018: SCOTUS Takes a Pair of Cases on the Ministerial Exception, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

Submissions from 2019

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Legal Spirits Episode 017: Tanzin v. Tanvir and Individual Liability Under RFRA, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 016: The New Wedding Vendor Cases, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 015: SCOTUS Grants Cert in the Louisiana Abortion Case, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 014: Requiring Clergy to Report Child Sex Abuse to State Authorities, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 013: A New Supreme Court Case From Montana Concerning the “Blaine Amendment”, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 012: Is Satanism a Religion?, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 011: The Court Decides the Peace Cross Case, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 010: The New Abortion Laws, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 009: The “Anti-Vaxx” Controversy, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 008: Religious Hate Speech (Part II), Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 007: Religious Hate Speech (Part I), Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 006: SCOTUS Hears Oral Argument in the Peace Cross Case, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 005: Praying on the 50-Yard Line, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 004: A Ninth Circuit Ruling on Prayers at Public School Board Meetings, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

Submissions from 2018

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Legal Spirits Episode 003: Tradition in the Global Context, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 002: SCOTUS Grants Cert in the Peace Cross Case, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami

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Legal Spirits Episode 001: A British Version of Masterpiece Cakeshop?, Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O. DeGirolami