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. Interested scholars from a range of academic specialties are encouraged to submit an abstract about a topic germane to the symposium’s themes. We particularly encourage early career scholars to submit abstracts.
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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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Kevin and I were delighted to speak with our old friend, Professor Lee Strang, about the arrival of civic and/or classical education centers in universities. Lee is Professor of Law at The Ohio State University School of Law and the Executive Director of the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society. We discussed […]
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Kevin and I interview Professor Nathan Chapman, co-author with Professor Michael McConnell of an important recent book on the Establishment Clause, Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience. Among other issues we discuss are the authors’ view that the Clause exists to protect against government “conformity” in matters […]
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Kevin and I have this interview with our old friend, Professor Steven D. Smith, about his new book, The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic. In it we discuss the nature of Providence in the American political self-understanding and what happened to it across the centuries, together with reflecting on some lasting themes from Steve’s […]
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