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About Charles J. Russo
Charles J. Russo, M.Div., J.D., Ed.D., Joseph Panzer Chair of Education in the School of Education and Health Sciences (SEHS), Director of SEHS’s Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership, and Research Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Dayton, OH, specializes in issues involving education and the law with a special focus on religious freedom. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University of Australia School of Law, Sydney Campus. He can be reached at crusso1@udayton.edu. All views expressed herein are exclusively his own.
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Do courts or religious leaders decide who qualifies as a minister?

April 20, 2023 Charles J. Russo 4

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), adopted during the height of the Civil rights movement, is the most significant federal anti-discrimination statute addressing employment. In relevant part, Title VII reads […]

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Free speech for some—but not for Christians?

April 15, 2023 Charles J. Russo 7

Can public school teachers make their faith known in public? As evidenced by a recent incident in Loudoun County, Virginia, controversy and confusion over this point—fueled by educators’ lack of understanding of recent Supreme Court […]

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On Jessica Bates and the “new orthodoxy”: Can people of faith still adopt?

April 10, 2023 Charles J. Russo 8

Jessica Bates, a widowed mother of five children aged ten to seventeen in Oregon whose husband died six years ago in a car accident unsuccessfully attempted “to adopt siblings from foster care,” both of whom […]

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