Join the Council for American Private Education and the Center for Law and the Human Person as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the historic Pierce v. Society of Sisters Supreme Court decision. Pierce enshrined the important principle that a child is not the mere creature of the state and ensured the right of parents to choose a […]
We often think of law as a set of rules enforced from above, and of morality as a burden on our freedom. But what if that picture is upside-down? This talk explores an older tradition that leads to surprising conclusions about the relationship of law and morality. Reception to follow in the Atrium. […]
Law in Context is a four-part luncheon series that offers presentations on the intersection of law and related disciplines, including philosophy, health care, religion, and politics. Lunch will be provided.
The Faith in Action lecture series, an initiative of Catholic Law’s Center for Law and the Human Person, seeks to provide students with living examples of lawyers who witness to their faith through their vocation to law.
“All men, by nature, desire to know.” So did Aristotle introduce his mighty “Metaphysics.” Knowledge is a natural human good, desirable for its own sake. And human beings fulfill or achieve the natural good of knowledge through a variety of enduring institutions. Institutions are a society’s knowledge repositories, incubators, and transmitters. But American institutions all […]
