Rob Vischer is an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas Law School in Minneapolis. His scholarship focuses on law and religion, with a particular focus on the religious and moral dimensions of professional identity. His new book, Conscience and the Common Good: Reclaiming the Space Between Person and State (Cambridge UP 2010), defines and defends the relational dimension of conscience and identifies ways in which our legal system can better maintain the communal venues in which the dictates of conscience are shaped, articulated, and lived out. Prof. Vischer has a B.A. from the University of New Orleans and a J.D. from Harvard, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.