Unjust laws are not laws—they are simply mandates. This type of mandate fundamentally contradicts the basis of our modem legal system: the U.S. and state constitutions, federal and state statutes, and ...
John Yoo responds to an article by Berkeley Law’s Steve Hayward on Steve’s substack, Political Questions. Steve’s trolling here (in “Thomas Jefferson Versus Jeremy Bentham”) of his co-instructor ...
A Roundtable Discussion on The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence (Cambridge University Press, 2017) featuring: Robert P. George, co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Natural Law ...
The Law Subject, which is referred to as the ‘Mother of All Legal Concepts,’ is Jurisprudence.
On May 30, the State Department announced that it was setting up a Commission on Unalienable Rights to advise the Secretary of State, and “provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where ...
No, Ken Burns, the United States Is Not an Iroquois Nation Audio By Carbonatix Is originalism a morally empty jurisprudence? For decades, various scholars working within the natural-law tradition have ...
Much has been made of the fact that Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, studied at Oxford with Australian legal philosopher John Finnis, a prominent proponent of natural law ...
In October, The New York Times published an opinion essay by Berkeley law professor (and law school dean) Erwin Chemerinsky originally titled “Amy Coney Barrett’s Originalism Threatens Our Freedoms.” ...
Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution, by Hadley Arkes, Regnery Gateway, 352 pages. The American political class appears hopelessly compromised by corrosive ...
It is apparent that Trump himself never so much as glanced at this nation’s defining document. The only more worrisome and lamentable fact is that tens of millions of Americans found this president’s ...