{"id":937,"date":"2016-03-14T13:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/carolina-and-constitution-series-continues\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T14:09:14","slug":"carolina-and-constitution-series-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/carolina-and-constitution-series-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"“Carolina and Constitution” series continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012
\nby Vince Moore, Director of News and Media Relations<\/p>\n

GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Furman University president Rod Smolla, one of the nation\u2019s top constitutional scholars, will present the second of his lectures about South Carolina cases that led to landmark decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, Nov. 28.<\/p>\n

The lecture, \u201cThe Religion Clauses: Sherbert v. Verner and the Free Exercise of Religion in America,\u201d will begin at 7 p.m. in the Resource Room of the Upcountry History Museum\/Furman.\u00a0 It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

The final lecture of Smolla\u2019s \u201cCarolina and the Constitution\u201d series will take place Tuesday, April 16, 2013.<\/p>\n

Smolla\u2019s Nov. 28 lecture will examine a South Carolina case, Sherbert v. Verner (1963), that became one of the nation\u2019s most important cases involving religious liberty.<\/p>\n

Adell Sherbert was a South Carolina textile mill worker and Seventh-day Adventist who was fired by her employer because she refused to work on Saturday, her faith\u2019s Sabbath.\u00a0 She was also denied unemployment benefits.\u00a0 Sherbert claimed she was denied her right to freely exercise her religion.<\/p>\n

Both a state trial court and the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed the decision by the Employment Security Commission. But in a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Commission and the lower courts, finding that denying Sherbert\u2019s claim was an unconstitutional burden on the free exercise of her religion. The majority opinion created the Sherbert Test, determining whether government action runs afoul of the Free Exercise Clause.<\/p>\n

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Rod Smolla<\/p><\/div>\n

Smolla is nationally recognized as a scholar, teacher, advocate and writer, and is one of America\u2019s foremost experts on issues relating to freedom of speech, academic freedom and freedom of the press.\u00a0 He holds degree from Yale University and Duke University Law School.<\/p>\n

Prior to coming to Furman, Smolla served as dean of the law schools at Washington and Lee and the University of Richmond.\u00a0 He has also been Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the College of William & Mary.<\/p>\n

During his legal career, Smolla has presented arguments in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0 He is the author of several books, including Free Speech in an Open Society<\/em> and Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt: The First Amendment on Trial<\/em>.\u00a0 His most recent book, The Constitution Goes to College<\/em>, describes the constitutional principles and ideas that have shaped American higher education.<\/p>\n

A complete description of the \u201cCarolina and the Constitution\u201d series is available online.\u00a0 For more information, contact Furman\u2019s News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOVEMBER 19, 2012
\nby Vince Moore, Director of News and Media Relations<\/p>\n

Furman president Rod Smolla, one of the nation\u2019s top constitutional scholars, will present the second of his lectures about South Carolina cases that led to landmark decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, Nov. 28.\u00a0The lecture, \u201cThe Religion Clauses: Sherbert v. Verner and the Free Exercise of Religion in America,\u201d will begin at 7 p.m. in the Resource Room of the Upcountry History Museum\/Furman..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33253,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/33253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}