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MICHAEL P. SCHUTT, Esq
Director, Institute for Christian Legal Studies
Michael P. Schutt serves the ICLS full time as Director. Professor Schutt is Associate Professor of Law at Regent
University, where he has taught since 1993. His subjects include Torts, Legal Ethics, and Business Associations, among
others, and he has written and taught on the relationship of lawyers, faith, and culture.
Before teaching at Regent, Professor Schutt practiced law in Fort Worth, Texas with the firm Thompson & Knight. He is an
honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law.
His publications include Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Decline of the American Lawyer: Social Engineering, Religion,
and the Search for Professional Identity, 30 RUTGERS L. J. 143 (1998) and What's A Nice Christian Like You Doing
in a Profession Like This? 11 REGENT U. L. REV. 137 (1998-99). He has also authored supplements on biblical
principals for use by his students in the law school classroom.
He writes and travels for the Institute for Christian Legal Studies from his home in Mount Pleasant, Texas, where he lives
with his wife, Lisa, and their three children.
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Institute for Christian Legal Studies (ICLS) Vision
The Christian Legal Society and Regent University School of Law have recently announced the creation of the Institute for
Christian Legal Studies, a ministry to law students and professors who desire to teach, study, and write about the law
from a Christian perspective. Michael Schutt will serve as the Director of ICLS. The following article shares a bit
about the genesis of ICLS and Mike's vision for its future.
In the spring of 2000, Mike Schutt was granted a one-year sabbatical from his teaching duties at Regent University School
of Law, where he taught since 1993. He requested the sabbatical so that he could begin to develop a resource center for
Christian law students and professors who desire to integrate biblical principles into the substance of the study and
teaching of law. This project sprung from the desire of the Regent Law School Dean and a group of Regent law professors
to encourage law students at other law schools to engage in serious biblical thinking about the law. More Info.
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MINISTRY
- Providing print and Internet resources and individual training to help law
students and scholars study and write about the law from a Christian perspective.
- Networking mentors who desire to assist law students in living out their
callings as Christian lawyers;
- Developing distance courses for law students and undergraduates.
- Offering on-line Continuing Legal Education.
- Creating student course outlines on biblical and natural law principles for
substantive law courses.
- Maintaining a speakers' bureau to help Christian professors communicate with
students across the country.
- Visiting law school campuses to encourage students and professors in spiritual
formation, in integration of faith and scholarship, and in compassionate outreach.
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MISSION
The Christian Legal Society and Regent University School of Law have together created a resource center for
Christian law students, legal scholars, and practitioners who desire to integrate their faith with the study and
practice of law.
The mission of ICLS is to train and encourage Christian law students, law professors, and practicing lawyers to
seek and study Biblical truth, including the natural law tradition, as it relates to law and legal institutions,
and to encourage them toward spiritual growth, compassionate outreach to the poor and needy, and the integration of
faith with learning, teaching, and legal practice. |
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