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Howard J. Vogel is professor
of law at Hamline University School of Law having joined
the faculty in 1975 following work in a public interest
law practice, with an emphasis on environmental protection,
and later as staff attorney with MPIRG (Minnesota Public
Interest Research Group). He teaches courses on American
Constitutional Law, International Human Rights Law, and
two innovative seminars that explore the problem of hope
within the context of the possibilities of law as a healing
profession in contemporary life. The first of these seminars,
entitled From Rules to Ethics: Identity & Responsibility
in the Professions, explores the professional identity
of the lawyer in comparison to the other classical professions
of medicine and the clergy. The second, entitled Restorative
Justice, Cultural Conflict & the Practice of Law:
What’s Love Got to Do With It?, explores forgiveness
and reparations as a way to address social conflict.
Professor
Vogel’s scholarly work explores the relation
of law and hope and is located at the intersection of
law, religion and ethics, with a special interest in
the lawyer’s vocation, restorative justice, and
Christian ethics as an approach to problems of cultural
conflict, minority rights and racial reconciliation.
He is currently at work on a set of essays collectively
entitled Law & Hope: The Practice of Law as a Vocation
of Covenantal Response. These essays are an effort to
set forth a constructive postmodern approach to law, legal practice,
and legal education framed in a relational perspective
which takes the intersection of spirituality, law and
politics seriously, in a way that supports the lawyer's
work as a vocation worthy of commitment, in service of
community. As such it is an explicit effort to offer
an alternative view of law and professional identity
of the lawyer, rooted in a restorative, rather than retributive
view of justice, employing narrative method, to secure
social healing. The approach advanced in this work is
illustrated concretely through application to the problem
of the color-line in American life and the task of reconstruction
to secure racial reconciliation in the American Republic.
Professor
Vogel is the director of the Hamline Law School project
on Reflecting on Law as a Vocation which is funded
as part of the Lilly Endowment grant to Hamline University
for its campus-wide program of Theological Exploration
of Vocation. www.hamline.edu/law/vocation Since 1989 he has served as one of the
editors of the Journal of Law and Religion. www.hamline.edu/jlr For
over twenty years he has been an active member of
the Society of Christian Ethics and is co-founder and
current co-convener of the Restorative Justice Interest
Group of the Society.
Professor Vogel has also
taught in Jerusalem as a member of the faculty of the
Hamline-Hebrew
University Summer
Program in Law, Religion & Ethics (1994 & 1995),
and served as Visiting Professor in the Doctor of Ministry
Summer Program at Emory University Theological Seminary
(1986), and in the Political Science Department of the
University of Minnesota (1989-90 & 1996-97). He received
his undergraduate and law degrees from the University
of Minnesota, and a M.A. in Religious Studies from United
Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.
Contact
Information
Howard J. Vogel
Hamline University School of Law
1536 Hewitt Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 551041284
Telephone: 651-523-2120
FAX: 651-523-2236
e-mail: hvogel@hamline.edu
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