Books
Social Cohesion and the Legal Enforcement of Morality
– American Journal of Jurisprudence 35:1 (1990).IN SEPTEMBER OF 1957, THE COMMITTEE on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, chaired by Sir John Wolfenden, issued its Report recommending to the British Parliament that “homosexual… More
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality
– Oxford University Press, 1993.Description from Publisher: Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless crimes. Here… More
Reflections on the Ethics of Representing Clients Whose Aims Are Unjust
– South Texas Law Review 40:1 (Spring 1999).Sometimes it is possible for lawyers to represent clients whose aims are unjust without willing the injustice of their clients’ aims.For example, generally speaking, someone who is… More
Religious Values and Politics
– In Francis A. Eigo (ed.), Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Villanova University Press, 1999), with William Saunders.Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law
– American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001). Reprinted in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1:1 (Fall 2001), Regent University Law Review 15:2 (2002-2003), Charles W. Dunn (ed.), Faith, Freedom, and the Future: Religion in American Political Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Clarion Review 2 (2004), and Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collet (eds.), Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the natural law tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order. St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to… More
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis
– Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002.Description from Publisher: It is a common supposition among many of our cultural elites that a constitutional “wall of separation” between church and state precludes religious… More
The Unorthodox Liberalism of Joseph Raz
– Revised and expanded in Christopher Wolfe (ed.), Liberalism at the Crossroads, 2nd Edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). Original version published in The Review of Politics 53:4 (Fall 1991). Reprinted in Christopher Wolfe and John Hittinger (eds.), Liberalism at the Crossroads (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994).Abstract (from The Review of Politics): In The Morality of Freedom, Joseph Raz has challenged the anti-perfectionism of orthodox liberal political theory and proposed an alternative form of… More
Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation
– In Elizabeth Bucar and Barbra Barnette (eds.), Does Human Rights Need God? (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).Remarks on Freedom of Conscience
– A Lunch Colloquy, "Dictating Conscience: Law as a Cultural Weapon," Penn Federalist Society, March 31, 2014, YouTube.The Nature and Basis of Religious Freedom
– Keynote address at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s conference on “Truth, Conscience, and Religious Freedom,” April 4-5, 2014, YouTube.Dr. Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University discusses the importance of asking questions in this excerpt from his talk entitled “The Nature and… More
Faith, Sex, and Freedom
– Speech at Love and Fidelity Network's Seventh Annual National Conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University, Princeton University, November 8, 2014, YouTube.Professor George will discuss the threats posed by the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as “marriages,” especially when combined with “Sexual Orientation and… More
Essays
Social Cohesion and the Legal Enforcement of Morality
– American Journal of Jurisprudence 35:1 (1990).IN SEPTEMBER OF 1957, THE COMMITTEE on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, chaired by Sir John Wolfenden, issued its Report recommending to the British Parliament that “homosexual… More
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality
– Oxford University Press, 1993.Description from Publisher: Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless crimes. Here… More
Reflections on the Ethics of Representing Clients Whose Aims Are Unjust
– South Texas Law Review 40:1 (Spring 1999).Sometimes it is possible for lawyers to represent clients whose aims are unjust without willing the injustice of their clients’ aims.For example, generally speaking, someone who is… More
Religious Values and Politics
– In Francis A. Eigo (ed.), Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Villanova University Press, 1999), with William Saunders.Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law
– American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001). Reprinted in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1:1 (Fall 2001), Regent University Law Review 15:2 (2002-2003), Charles W. Dunn (ed.), Faith, Freedom, and the Future: Religion in American Political Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Clarion Review 2 (2004), and Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collet (eds.), Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the natural law tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order. St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to… More
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis
– Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002.Description from Publisher: It is a common supposition among many of our cultural elites that a constitutional “wall of separation” between church and state precludes religious… More
The Unorthodox Liberalism of Joseph Raz
– Revised and expanded in Christopher Wolfe (ed.), Liberalism at the Crossroads, 2nd Edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). Original version published in The Review of Politics 53:4 (Fall 1991). Reprinted in Christopher Wolfe and John Hittinger (eds.), Liberalism at the Crossroads (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994).Abstract (from The Review of Politics): In The Morality of Freedom, Joseph Raz has challenged the anti-perfectionism of orthodox liberal political theory and proposed an alternative form of… More
Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation
– In Elizabeth Bucar and Barbra Barnette (eds.), Does Human Rights Need God? (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).Remarks on Freedom of Conscience
– A Lunch Colloquy, "Dictating Conscience: Law as a Cultural Weapon," Penn Federalist Society, March 31, 2014, YouTube.The Nature and Basis of Religious Freedom
– Keynote address at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s conference on “Truth, Conscience, and Religious Freedom,” April 4-5, 2014, YouTube.Dr. Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University discusses the importance of asking questions in this excerpt from his talk entitled “The Nature and… More
Faith, Sex, and Freedom
– Speech at Love and Fidelity Network's Seventh Annual National Conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University, Princeton University, November 8, 2014, YouTube.Professor George will discuss the threats posed by the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as “marriages,” especially when combined with “Sexual Orientation and… More
Commentary
Social Cohesion and the Legal Enforcement of Morality
– American Journal of Jurisprudence 35:1 (1990).IN SEPTEMBER OF 1957, THE COMMITTEE on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, chaired by Sir John Wolfenden, issued its Report recommending to the British Parliament that “homosexual… More
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality
– Oxford University Press, 1993.Description from Publisher: Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless crimes. Here… More
Reflections on the Ethics of Representing Clients Whose Aims Are Unjust
– South Texas Law Review 40:1 (Spring 1999).Sometimes it is possible for lawyers to represent clients whose aims are unjust without willing the injustice of their clients’ aims.For example, generally speaking, someone who is… More
Religious Values and Politics
– In Francis A. Eigo (ed.), Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Villanova University Press, 1999), with William Saunders.Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law
– American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001). Reprinted in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1:1 (Fall 2001), Regent University Law Review 15:2 (2002-2003), Charles W. Dunn (ed.), Faith, Freedom, and the Future: Religion in American Political Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Clarion Review 2 (2004), and Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collet (eds.), Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the natural law tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order. St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to… More
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis
– Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002.Description from Publisher: It is a common supposition among many of our cultural elites that a constitutional “wall of separation” between church and state precludes religious… More
The Unorthodox Liberalism of Joseph Raz
– Revised and expanded in Christopher Wolfe (ed.), Liberalism at the Crossroads, 2nd Edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). Original version published in The Review of Politics 53:4 (Fall 1991). Reprinted in Christopher Wolfe and John Hittinger (eds.), Liberalism at the Crossroads (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994).Abstract (from The Review of Politics): In The Morality of Freedom, Joseph Raz has challenged the anti-perfectionism of orthodox liberal political theory and proposed an alternative form of… More
Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation
– In Elizabeth Bucar and Barbra Barnette (eds.), Does Human Rights Need God? (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).Remarks on Freedom of Conscience
– A Lunch Colloquy, "Dictating Conscience: Law as a Cultural Weapon," Penn Federalist Society, March 31, 2014, YouTube.The Nature and Basis of Religious Freedom
– Keynote address at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s conference on “Truth, Conscience, and Religious Freedom,” April 4-5, 2014, YouTube.Dr. Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University discusses the importance of asking questions in this excerpt from his talk entitled “The Nature and… More
Faith, Sex, and Freedom
– Speech at Love and Fidelity Network's Seventh Annual National Conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University, Princeton University, November 8, 2014, YouTube.Professor George will discuss the threats posed by the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as “marriages,” especially when combined with “Sexual Orientation and… More
Multimedia
Social Cohesion and the Legal Enforcement of Morality
– American Journal of Jurisprudence 35:1 (1990).IN SEPTEMBER OF 1957, THE COMMITTEE on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, chaired by Sir John Wolfenden, issued its Report recommending to the British Parliament that “homosexual… More
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality
– Oxford University Press, 1993.Description from Publisher: Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless crimes. Here… More
Reflections on the Ethics of Representing Clients Whose Aims Are Unjust
– South Texas Law Review 40:1 (Spring 1999).Sometimes it is possible for lawyers to represent clients whose aims are unjust without willing the injustice of their clients’ aims.For example, generally speaking, someone who is… More
Religious Values and Politics
– In Francis A. Eigo (ed.), Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Villanova University Press, 1999), with William Saunders.Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law
– American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001). Reprinted in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1:1 (Fall 2001), Regent University Law Review 15:2 (2002-2003), Charles W. Dunn (ed.), Faith, Freedom, and the Future: Religion in American Political Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Clarion Review 2 (2004), and Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collet (eds.), Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the natural law tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order. St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to… More
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis
– Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002.Description from Publisher: It is a common supposition among many of our cultural elites that a constitutional “wall of separation” between church and state precludes religious… More
The Unorthodox Liberalism of Joseph Raz
– Revised and expanded in Christopher Wolfe (ed.), Liberalism at the Crossroads, 2nd Edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). Original version published in The Review of Politics 53:4 (Fall 1991). Reprinted in Christopher Wolfe and John Hittinger (eds.), Liberalism at the Crossroads (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994).Abstract (from The Review of Politics): In The Morality of Freedom, Joseph Raz has challenged the anti-perfectionism of orthodox liberal political theory and proposed an alternative form of… More
Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation
– In Elizabeth Bucar and Barbra Barnette (eds.), Does Human Rights Need God? (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).Remarks on Freedom of Conscience
– A Lunch Colloquy, "Dictating Conscience: Law as a Cultural Weapon," Penn Federalist Society, March 31, 2014, YouTube.The Nature and Basis of Religious Freedom
– Keynote address at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s conference on “Truth, Conscience, and Religious Freedom,” April 4-5, 2014, YouTube.Dr. Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University discusses the importance of asking questions in this excerpt from his talk entitled “The Nature and… More
Faith, Sex, and Freedom
– Speech at Love and Fidelity Network's Seventh Annual National Conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University, Princeton University, November 8, 2014, YouTube.Professor George will discuss the threats posed by the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as “marriages,” especially when combined with “Sexual Orientation and… More
Teaching
Social Cohesion and the Legal Enforcement of Morality
– American Journal of Jurisprudence 35:1 (1990).IN SEPTEMBER OF 1957, THE COMMITTEE on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, chaired by Sir John Wolfenden, issued its Report recommending to the British Parliament that “homosexual… More
Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality
– Oxford University Press, 1993.Description from Publisher: Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless crimes. Here… More
Reflections on the Ethics of Representing Clients Whose Aims Are Unjust
– South Texas Law Review 40:1 (Spring 1999).Sometimes it is possible for lawyers to represent clients whose aims are unjust without willing the injustice of their clients’ aims.For example, generally speaking, someone who is… More
Religious Values and Politics
– In Francis A. Eigo (ed.), Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Villanova University Press, 1999), with William Saunders.Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law
– American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001). Reprinted in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1:1 (Fall 2001), Regent University Law Review 15:2 (2002-2003), Charles W. Dunn (ed.), Faith, Freedom, and the Future: Religion in American Political Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Clarion Review 2 (2004), and Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collet (eds.), Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the natural law tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order. St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to… More
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis
– Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002.Description from Publisher: It is a common supposition among many of our cultural elites that a constitutional “wall of separation” between church and state precludes religious… More
The Unorthodox Liberalism of Joseph Raz
– Revised and expanded in Christopher Wolfe (ed.), Liberalism at the Crossroads, 2nd Edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). Original version published in The Review of Politics 53:4 (Fall 1991). Reprinted in Christopher Wolfe and John Hittinger (eds.), Liberalism at the Crossroads (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994).Abstract (from The Review of Politics): In The Morality of Freedom, Joseph Raz has challenged the anti-perfectionism of orthodox liberal political theory and proposed an alternative form of… More
Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation
– In Elizabeth Bucar and Barbra Barnette (eds.), Does Human Rights Need God? (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005).Remarks on Freedom of Conscience
– A Lunch Colloquy, "Dictating Conscience: Law as a Cultural Weapon," Penn Federalist Society, March 31, 2014, YouTube.The Nature and Basis of Religious Freedom
– Keynote address at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s conference on “Truth, Conscience, and Religious Freedom,” April 4-5, 2014, YouTube.Dr. Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University discusses the importance of asking questions in this excerpt from his talk entitled “The Nature and… More
Faith, Sex, and Freedom
– Speech at Love and Fidelity Network's Seventh Annual National Conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University, Princeton University, November 8, 2014, YouTube.Professor George will discuss the threats posed by the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships as “marriages,” especially when combined with “Sexual Orientation and… More