Understanding Federal law and the Practice of Religion: Church Autonomy Doctrine, use of property, employment law, funding of religious schools, and vaccine mandates

Brody Hale | Law Office of Brody Hale

Brody Hale is a native of Tyringham in Southern Berkshire County MA. He concentrates his practice in several areas of law, with a special focus on legal issues associated with nonprofit organizations and social entrepreneurship. Brody had guided over two dozen nonprofit entities through the process of obtaining their corporate status and recognition as tax-exempt organizations by the Internal Revenue Service. He also handles matters in the areas of estate planning, municipal law, environmental conservation, education and real estate, having represented clients before municipal boards and the Massachusetts Land Court. He holds a BA from Tufts University, a JD from Boston College Law School, and an MPP from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and New York.

Prior to practicing law, Brody taught sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in New Orleans LA as a Teach for America corps member and served as a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea, teaching conversational English to university students. He also has spent nearly a decade providing pro bono consulting services internationally to those who have sought to preserve  historic Catholic churches.

Brody is a member of various boards, serving as an officer of the Tyringham Historical Association. Additionally, he serves as a member of the board of directors of the St. Joseph Church Preservation Society (Cabery IL,) the St. Michael Church Preservation Society (Atlantic City NJ,) JAGH (Columbus OH,) and is a co-founder and president of the St. Stephen Protomartyr Project, all organizations that actively engage in efforts to conserve and preserve historic Roman Catholic churches either exclusively or as part of their broader mission. His work in this arena has been written of in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, the Chicago Sun Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Worcester Telegram, the Fall River Herald, and the National Catholic Register.

I. U.S. Constitutional Law | 1:00pm – 1:15pm

II. Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment | 1:15pm – 1:30pm

III. Fourteenth Amendment, Doctrine of Incorporation | 1:30pm – 1:45pm

IV. Doctrine of Incorporation | 1:45pm – 2:00pm

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm 

V. Doctrine of Autonomy | 2:10pm – 2:25pm

VI. Employment Law | 2:25pm – 2:40pm

VII. School Funding | 2:40pm – 2:55pm

VIII. Property Rights | 2:55pm – 3:10pm