By - Evgeny Morozov, contributing editor at The New Republic.

An exploration of the moral responsibilities of corporations and corporate conscience, by Manuel Velasquez, Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Management, Santa Clara University.

Confessions of a "Recovering" Data Broker: A talk by Jim Adler, vice president, products, Metanautix

Conscience, Edward Snowden, and the Internet: Has Civil Disobedience Gone Too Far?

A Struggle for Peace and Justice: A Story of Conscience ans Its Consequences

Women Speak for Themselves: Conscience and the New Catholic Feminism

Biologist and philosopher Francisco Ayala addresses the question, Can we still retain a notion of moral conscience in the face of the findings and claims of evolutionary biology?

A panel discussion with Eric Goldman, SCU professor of law and director of the High Tech Law Institute; Kirthi Kalyanam, J.C. Penney Research Professor and director of the SCU Retail Management Institute; and Ashkan Soltani, independent researcher and affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.

Former member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, William Hurlbut’s talk on the role of technology, especially biotechnology, in the modern world, and the ethical impact of that technological power on our society.

SCU Law Professor Ellen Kreitzberg discusses whether Solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment.

Center Visiting Scholar Thomas Reese, S.J., analyzes new directions in the Catholic Church.

Panel discussion featuring Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Chris Boscia and SCU Law Professor Margaret Russell.

Catherine Wolff shares from her new book, Not Less Than Everything, which features stories of Catholics who appealed to conscience.

SCU Associate Professor of Law Stephen Diamond examines Pope Benedict’s proposal for global oversight of the economy.

SCU Journalism Professor Sally Lehrman leads a discussion of the Journal News’ decision to post an interactive map of people with gun licenses.

SCU Philosophy Professor Lawrence Nelson debates SCU Law Professor Ellen Kreitzberg.

Chair of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission Ann Ravel argues that anonymous campaign contributions keep voters from being able to assess candidate’s claims.

Jose Antonio Vargas, author of the New York Times article "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant," speaks about his own story and the broader national debate on undocumented immigration.

Bradley Joondeph, Associate Professor of Law at SCU, leads a discussion on the impact of the Supreme Court decision, “Citizens United,” on American elections.

-- Michael McConnell, Mallory Professor of Law, Stanford Law School and Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center Among the many rights and freedoms that Americans enjoy, what is the correct Constitutional status of the right of religious freedom? Is it a right that should have priority over other rights and as such is a "first freedom"? Or is it a right equal to other rights? These questions are at the heart of the current national debate over religious freedom, contraception, and...

The Center's Emerging Issues Group debates the dispositional vs. situational factors that create evil behavior.

Hacker names like Wikileaks, LulzSec, and Anonymous have become common parlance. And hackers have infiltrated high-profile targets like the BART system, U.S. government diplomatic channels, even the Vatican. But how are we to make sense of this current generation of hackers in light of the long history of "black-hat" and "white-hat" hacking? And how can we understand the ethical or not-so-ethical motives that are driving hackers today? Joseph Menn of Reuters is one of the top Internet...

-- Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, who once taught at SCU, is one of the leading voices in the United States on national education policy. She has argued that the term "racial achievement gap" unfairly constructs students as "defective and lacking" and "admonishes them that they need to catch up." In turn, she has argued that the term "education debt" moves us to a discourse that...

"Ethics and the Expectations of Gender: How Should Women and Men Negotiate When Work/Life Roles Change?” -- Professor Justin Boren, SCU Communication -- Professor Laura Ellingson, SCU Communication and Director, SCU Women's and Gender Studies Program -- Professor Barbara Kelley, SCU Communication. Today couples are caught between huge forces of change. In terms of economics, both partners today usually have to work. And in terms of gender, both partners live in a world of changing...