Third Annual Aquinas Lecture: How We’ve Gotten Law and Morality Wrong – and How to Fix It.
Speakers
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Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.President, Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Dominican House of StudiesFr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the President of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Prior to this position, he served as the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the PFIC. He is an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2017).
About the Event
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.
Co-sponsored by: The IHE
