Professor Bierschbach will teach a mock law school class on the following issue: Should corporations have constitutional rights? The class will begin by covering the basic question of what a corporation is, and will then turn to discuss the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which dealt with whether corporations can assert claims of religious belief. It is not necessary for students to read the case in advance. Professor Bierschbach will explain the opinion briefly and use it to raise interesting issues of both corporate and constitutional law, such as on whose behalf corporations act, how far we should go in extending to corporations rights that we ordinarily think of as applying only to natural persons, and what the consequences of doing so might be.

Richard A. Bierschbach is a Vice Dean and Law Professor at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. He specializes in alternative sentencing, criminal law, and white-collar crime.

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Light lunch refreshments available.