Following Christ 2008: Law Track
Welcome to the Law Track informational page for Following Christ 2008! Read here about our plans for the program and get to know those who are leading the track.
You may be interested in participating in this track if you are studying or practicing law or otherwise engaged in the legal profession.
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Track Leaders
Michael Schutt, Chair
Mike Schutt is Associate Professor of Law at Regent University and Director of the Institute for Christian Legal Studies (ICLS), a cooperative ministry of Regent Law and the Christian Legal Society. ICLS seeks to encourage Christian law students, professors, and lawyers to seek and study biblical truth as it relates to law and legal institutions. Schutt also serves InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as the national coordinator of its Law School Ministry. He is the author of Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession (InterVarsity Press, 2007), an exhortation to students and lawyers on Christian integrity in the law. Schutt writes and travels for ICLS from his home in Mount Pleasant, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Lisa, and their three children. Before joining the Regent Law faculty, he practiced law in Fort Worth, Texas. He is an honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law.
Greg Jao, Point
Greg Jao currently serves as InterVarsity’s Regional Director in New York & New Jersey. He completed his JD at Northwestern University School of Law in 1994 and worked for several years as an ERISA attorney with Gardner, Carton & Douglas (now Drinker Biddle). After joining InterVarsity staff, he worked as the Associate General Counsel for several years. He’s a contributing author to books on Asian American discipleship, as well as on postmodern evangelism. He currently lives in New York City.
Program Summary
Ours is a bold claim: one may be called to the law and there flourish through faithful service as a lawyer, judge, or professor.
The Law Track at FC08 will explore the implications of this claim. We’ll discuss, among other things, the allure of power and prestige as well as rival visions of human flourishing implicit in the profession. We’ll contrast the withering that often envelops lawyers and law students — whether it be burnout, materialism, apathy, or the like — with a robust vision of the lawyer’s calling. We’ll look for hints of grace in the historical and theological roots of law itself, and we’ll ask whether law, in our sinful hands, bears any relationship to God’s law. We will also consider whether law itself contributes to human flourishing and how we might practice law in ways that encourage and sustain that flourishing in the communities in which God has placed us.
We’ll challenge both lawyers and law students to first discern and then cheerfully embrace their calling to the law, trusting that God will use their calling to love their neighbors through them. Come join hundreds of students and practitioners as we gather to discuss, pray, and process these issues surrounding the lawyer’s calling.
Track Presenters
Jeff Brauch
Samuel Casey
Sylvia Chen
Steffen Johnson
Larry Langdon
Randy Singer
Carol Swain
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