Cicero’s understanding of natural law and friendship is a vital source of what is most admirable in modern liberalism and ...

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 ...

Biplanes, Trains, and Super-Fast Ponies, Zip Codes, Stamps, and Ben Franklin Lessons from the Last Iranian Revolution What the Founders’ Drinking Habits Have to Do with Gun Rights The Hypocrisy of Jon ...

As we recently celebrated the Fourth of July, I have been engaging in the rich and fruitful exercise of re-reading the Declaration of Independence. This reading has brought some important things to ...

It's been a good week for natural law. People are talking about it even if they do not mention it by name. David Brooks, at the Aspen Ideas Festival, spoke about the pattern of "rupture and repair" ...

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...

COMMENTARY: In ‘Mere Natural Law,’ the Catholic convert addresses what has touched off a roiling debate within the conservative legal movement. ‘Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his recent op-ed piece on the supposed nefarious influence of Catholic natural law on the good of the American public (“Will influence of Catholic ‘natural law’ make America medieval?” Jan. 18), ...