Porter on natural law and legal authority

If you’re in the Philadelphia area tomorrow, there’s an interesting symposium going on at Villanova.  The Joseph T. McCullen Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Law will focus on Jean Porter’s forthcoming book Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority.  Porter (left), a professor of law and professor of theology at Notre Dame Law School, will give the opening address at 9:00 a.m.

Among the panelists in the day-long program are Patrick McKinley Brennan (Villanova), Michelle Madden Dempsey (Villanova), Fr. Kevin Flannery (Pontifical Gregorian University), Bradley Lewis (Catholic), William Mattison III (Catholic), Francis Mootz III (UNLV), Michael Moreland (Villanova), Penelope Pether (Villanova), Maris Köpcke Tinturé (Oxford), and Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale).  Registration here.

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