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Christianity and the Law: Stewarding Legal Power for the Sake of the Kingdom
Barbara Armacost, Professor of Law
Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor of Law,
University of Virginia
Lecture given Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Christianity and the Law: Stewarding Legal Power for the Sake of the Kingdom Feb. 17, 2009 (22.7 mb mp3)
 Professor Barbara Armacost has taught law to University of Virginia students since 1992. She is an active faculty supporter of Law Christian Fellowship of the Center for Christian Study, and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Center. She teaches civil rights litigation, criminal investigation, torts, and First Amendment (religion clauses). She is the Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor at U.Va.
Armacost became a lawyer after a number of years in the nursing profession. During those years, she served as a head nurse in the cardiovascular unit at the University of Virginia Hospital and worked as a volunteer in a mission hospital in La Pointe, Haiti. In 1984 she earned a Masters Degree in Theological Studies from Regent College at the University of British Columbia. Her work earned her the Master of Theological Studies Proficiency Award and the Ethics Award for Academic Excellence.
Armacost subsequently worked as a paralegal before entering the Law School in 1986. While earning her J.D., she was honored here with the Thomas Marshall Miller Prize, Mary Claiborne and Roy H. Ritter Prize, and election to the Order of the Coif. She also served as notes editor of the Virginia Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The following two years she served as attorney adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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