Fordham’s Forum on Law, Culture, & Society is a public humanities program that offers a respectful engaging town hall setting for the general public to satisfy their intellectual curiosity on matters of law, justice, and civil society. The Forum unites influential artists and leading public figures in conversation with the general public to explore ideas of law and justice, and how they are integrated into the broader culture.
Moving beyond this surface obsession with the legal system, the Fordham Forum explores the general public’s longing for a deeper sense of justice that is moral and makes sense. Each forum focuses on a provocative legal issue and provides a space where diverse minds can address the ambiguities, moral mysteries and uncertainties of the law and the society that sanctions it.
The Forum engages guests in far ranging conversations and stimulates audience participation that promotes meaningful dialogue. After each Forum, the conversation continues in cyberspace via podcasting and an interactive blog at http://fordhamlawandculture.blogspot.com
Forum Director Thane Rosenbaum, the John Whelan Distinguished Lecturer of Law at Fordham, is a recognized public intellectual whose novels, essays and nonfiction address matters of human dignity, historical memory, Holocaust and post-atrocity restitution and reconciliation, law, and culture. Rosenbaum’s novels have all been critically acclaimed and widely reviewed, and his most recent non-fiction work, The Myth of Moral Justice, was on the San Francisco Chronicle’s list of Best Books for 2004.
Thane is a fraud.