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 ...

Constitutional theorists on the right are engaged in a debate about the moral foundations of originalism, the theory that government officials, including judges, are bound by the original meaning of ...

On September 1, a group of prominent legal scholars joined AEI’s J. Joel Alicea to discuss one of the most timely—and divisive—debates in the conservative legal community: What is the relationship ...

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Let’s start this week with a little provocation. In Law and Liberty, F. H. Buckley explains the problem, as he sees it, with natural law theory: American lawyers who seek to bootstrap their ...

Drawing on their new book, Hopeful Realism, Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson lay out an Augustinian and evangelical theory of the natural law and show how it can be employed within ...

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the role of natural law in American law. Several important scholars, such as Jud Campbell and Richard H. Helmholz, have ...

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 ...