Law students shouldn’t be content with shallow conceptions of law. Instead, they should look deeper, asking questions about the nature and destiny of the human person, and the connection between our human nature and the legal enterprise.
Author: Richard W. Garnett (Richard Garnett)
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Moral Anthropology, Social Ontology, and Authentic Human Freedom
The late Jean Bethke Elshtain understood that human beings are inherently relational, arguing that families are essential for human flourishing.
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Mary Ann Glendon and the Structure of Religious Freedom
For its protection and flourishing, religious freedom needs not only limited government but also a social order that gives plenty of room to civic institutions and associations.
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Simple Justice: Kids Deserve School Choice
Rather than cave to self-interested protests against school choice from teachers unions, we should do what we can to make Catholic schools a viable school option for low-income children.
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Confusion About Discrimination
Not all discrimination is wrong. While the government should regulate some forms of wrongful discrimination, other forms of discrimination lie beyond the purview of the state.
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How the No-Establishment Rule Does (and Does Not) Protect the Freedom of Conscience
The Constitution’s no-establishment rule does protect the liberty of religious conscience, but not in the way, or ways, that we usually think.
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Positive Secularism and the American Model of Religious Liberty
At its fullest, the American model of religious liberty is not a freedom from religion or a freedom of religion; it is a freedom for religion.