Center-Sponsored First Mock Trial Team Receives “Spirit Award” Honorable Mention
On Friday, February 19, 2016, nine Olivet Nazarene University students traveled to Joliet, IL to participate in a two-day regional mock trial competition of the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA). Olivet’s mock trial team – known as the ONU Trial Tigers – was comprised, mainly, of History and Political Science majors and Legal Studies minors, some of whom are also members of the Law...
Read MoreCenter Staff & Friends Meet Colonel Oliver North at Sanctity of Human Life Event
On Thursday, March 3, 2016, members of the faculty and staff of Olivet Nazarene University and The Center for Law and Culture, traveled to Merrillville, Indiana, to attend a dinner sponsored by the Northwest Indiana Women’s Center. The featured speaker for the event was Colonel Oliver North, a combat-decorated Marine in the Vietnam War, former counterterrorism coordinator on the National...
Read MoreStudents Represent Center-Olivet Partnership in Washington, D.C.
As part of Olivet’s Legal Studies program, students are selected each January to participate in a week-long Federal Seminar study trip to Washington, D.C. The seminar occurs in conjunction with the National Association of Evangelicals’ (NAE) Student Leadership Conference, which attracts students from several evangelical colleges and universities. During the conference, students attend...
Read MoreCenter Co-Sponsors Visit from Dr. Ben Carson
The Center, along with Freedom’s Journal Institute, was delighted to co-sponsor U.S. presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson as the featured speaker at Olivet Nazarene University’s chapel service on October 1. Carson told a capacity crowd at Olivet’s Centennial Chapel that the United States was “a place of dreams” for him as he overcame poverty, pursued higher education, and rose to the...
Read MoreCenter Celebrates Constitutional Heritage & Introduces New Initiatives
American founder and legal scholar, James Wilson, once wrote that “Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.” Similarly, famous American founder, Thomas Jefferson, taught that “An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic.” In that spirit, the Center for Law and Culture...
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