The 1972 Supreme Court decision in Wisconsin v. Yoder, which upheld Amish parents’ right to determine their children’s education on religious grounds, is considered a landmark in American constitutional history. In this presentation Mark Louden will discuss the background to the case, which began in New Glarus, WI, and its implications today.
Mark Louden is the Alfred L. Shoemaker, J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic Linguistics in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, and the Director of the Max Kade Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.