Rev. Dominic Legge, professor of systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies, will present “Martin Luther King Jr. and the Question of ‘Illegal Laws’: Civil Law, Justice, and Morality.” Lunch will be provided.
Father Legge holds a doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Before becoming a Dominican priest, he practiced law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. This event is sponsored by the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life and the Constitutional Studies Program.