When Faith and Law Collide: Revisiting Martin Luther King’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

“I agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’”—Martin Luther King, Letter From Birmingham Jail.

 

The Journal of Law and Religion, located at Hamline University School of Law, cordially invites you to attend the Twentieth Annual Fall Symposium on Friday, September 23, 2011, “When Faith and Law Collide: Revisiting Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.”  The event will revisit the story behind the composition of “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” the questions it addressed, and the questions it continues to raise. Panelists will include a state senator and former St. Paul Chief of Police, a former mayor of St. Paul, a former Minnesota State District Judge, and faculty from colleges and schools of law in the Twin Cities and across the country.