Masterpiece Cakeshop and Its Implications
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MASTERPIECE CAKESHOP
AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
The following is a transcript of a 2018 Federalist Society panel
entitled Masterpiece Cakeshop and Its Implications. The panel originally
occurred on November 15, 2018, during the National Lawyers Convention in
Washington, D.C. The panelists were: Thomas C. Berg, James Oberstar
Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of St. Thomas School of Law
(Minnesota); Gerard V. Bradley, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Law School; and Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director and Director of
Center for Liberty, ACLU.
[RECORDING BEGINS]
BILL SAUNDERS: Hi. My name is Bill Saunders. I am the
Chairman of the Religious Liberties Practice Group, and I welcome you all to
this session. Thank you for coming. I want to just say two things. Number
one, if you're interested in these issues, please join our practice group and
participate as much as you'd like. We'd love to have maiy of you. This may
be an issue you have been involved in. Please join us. The second thing is I
just want to turn the program over to the [Moderator] who will introduce the
panel and conduct the session. But again, thank you for coming.
MODERATOR: Thank you very much, Bill. I am going to give
just a brief introduction for our various panelists. In typical Federalist Society
form, we have an all-star lineup to talk about a very important case today.
The full bios for our illustrious panelists are in your handout materials, and
are also on the app and on the website, so you can read more about them.
But first, to my left and your right, is Tom Berg. Professor Berg is a
Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of St. Thomas School of
Law. He is the author of many articles and several books, including perhaps
the leading casebook on today's topic, entitled Religion and the Constitution,
which he published with Michael McConnell and Christopher Lund through
Wolters Kluwer.' And he clerked for Judge Alvin Rubin on the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. So thank you for joining us, Professor Berg.
To his left is Gerry Bradley. Professor Bradley is a Professor of Law
at the University of Notre Dame, where he also co-directs with John Finnis at
the Natural Law Institute. He's written numerous articles that bear on today's
See generally MICHAEL W. MCCONNELL, THOMAS C. BERG & CHRISTOPHER C. LUND, RELIGION
AND THE CONSTITUTION (4th ed. 2016).](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/udlr45&div=15&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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