The Center for Law and the Human Person announces the theme for its Fourth Annual Spring Symposium: “Now We Know that the Law is Good”: On Law and Virtue. The symposium will take place March 26-27, 2026 at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. We are delighted to announce that Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law emerita at Harvard University and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, will deliver the symposium’s public keynote lecture.
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People often notice our distinctive logo and ask questions about it. Many assume the person depicted in its center is Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man,” an image in which the human person is depicted as the model and measure of the cosmos. But, in fact, our inspiration is a different one: the Universal Man of […]
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I have a short comment, How a Theory Can Make a Difference, reflecting on what it means for a constitutional theory to mean something, to make a difference. The piece is a response to Professor Sherif Girgis’s excellent lecture for the Florida Law Review on originalism and the problem of theoretical non-distinctiveness. I have a […]
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In our latest podcast, Kevin and I reflect on some recent and less recent controversies in the news concerning Catholic views about the source of our rights and of our law, with digressions on Pierce v. Society of Sisters to Al Smith to Senator Tim Kaine to Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Tattoos optional. Listen in!
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I have a new paper with this title. It argues that we have neglected the issue of essences in some of our fundamental legal concepts, with the result that our concepts are no longer cohering and can no longer serve the functions that we are asking of them. I focus on the concepts of “person” […]
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