Kevin Hasson

Kevin J. "Seamus" Hasson, Esq. is Founder and President of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonpartisan public-interest law firm that has represented people of all faiths ( [http://becketfund.org/index.php/person/3.html] ).

Before founding the Becket Fund in 1994, Hasson was an attorney at Williams & Connolly in Washington D.C., where he focused on religious liberty litigation. From 1986 to 1987, he served in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department where he advised the White House and cabinet departments on church-state relations.

He is a 1985 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School, and also holds a Masters Degree in theology from Notre Dame. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bible Literacy Project, publishers of the curriculum "The Bible and Its Influence" for public high school literature courses.

Publications

His book, "The Right To Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America", was released in October 2005.

Links

* [http://becketfund.org/index.php/person/3.html Profile]
* [http://www.becketfund.org/ The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty]
* [http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1207/p01s03-uspo.html Hasson on the use of Qu'rans for congressional swearing-in ceremonies]
* [http://clmagazine.org/backissues/2006julyaug_14-17onreligiousliberty.pdf Celebrate Life]
* [http://www.becketfund.org/index.php/article/544.html Debate Series with ACLU's Jeremy Gunn]
* [http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0700/hasson1.asp Jewish World Review]
* [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week543/perspectives.html PBS]