For the John Templeton Foundation, I wrote about pioneering efforts in religious liberty education at Stanford Law School.
In partnership with the John Templeton Foundation, we launched as a pilot project in 2012 the nation’s only full-time law-school clinic for religious liberty, and at one of the world’s top universities. Stanford Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic has since become part of the school’s established curriculum and one of its most popular offerings.
Stanford’s program of clinical legal education is among the nation’s best, and takes a cutting-edge approach: full-time participation in an academic quarter with a dedicated faculty director. For the Religious Liberty Clinic, that means engaged cultivation of future lawyers and leaders in and through that vital subject, needed help to clients facing barriers in exercising their faith, and a high-profile witness to universal religious liberty - a combination as timeless as it is timely in a fast-changing world.