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A blog devoted to the development of Catholic legal theory.

Author: Law professor contributors include: Robert Araujo of Gonzaga University; Stephen Bainbridge of the University of California-Los Angeles (who also authors Professor Bainbridge; Thomas Berg, Elizabeth Schlitz, Greg Sisk, Susan Stabile and Rob Vischer of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. (Vischer also contributes to Legal Ethics Forum and The Religiously Affiliated Law Schools); John Breen is an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago; Patrick Brennan and Mark Sargent of Villanova University; Rick Garnett (who also contributes to PrawfsBlawg and The Religiously Affiliated Law Schools) and Elizabeth Kirk of the University of Notre Dame; Richard Myers of the Ave Maria School of Law; Michael Perry of Emory University; Eduardo Peñalver and Steve Shiffrin of Cornell University; Russell Powell of Seattle University; Mike Scaperlanda of the University of Oklahoma; Richard Stith of Valparaiso Univeristy; and Amy Uelmen of Fordham University.

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Recent Posts from Mirror of Justice

  • Remember, remember, the Fifth of November

    Today is "Guy Fawkes Day" (or, more precisely, for our friends across the Pond, tonight is Bonfire Night), When I was in first grade, my public school celebrated Guy Fawkes Day. It did not strike…

  • Catholic Social Theory Critique of the UN's MDGs

    The Millennium Development Goals: In Light of Catholic Social Teaching By D. Brian Scarnecchia, JD and Terrence McKeegan, JD looks good. Focuses on a lack of solidarity and subsidiarity. Check it out further at http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.1403/pub_detail.asp

  • A Message from Italy

    [MOJ friend, Pasquale Annicchino, Fellow in the Law and Religion Programme at the University of Siena and Editor in Chief, University College London Human Rights Review, sends this along:] Lautsi v Italy: A European Everson?…

  • The Next Generation of Catholic Leaders.... in action at Georgetown?

    John Allen recently published an interesting article called "The Next Generation of Catholic Leaders", on a topic that we've addressed on MOJ in the past -- the nature of a perceived generational shift in attitudes…

  • The well-formed conscience as the "certain" conscience

    MoJ reader Robert King offers some thoughts on our conversation about the Catholic voter and conscience: While in the process of investigating, the individual should give the benefit of the doubt to the Church; and…

  • Hans Kung and the Vatican

    One of my favorite theologians, Hans Kung, has criticized the Pope on the Anglican issue, See http://www.catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=7087, and the Vatican has fired back. See http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2009/11/vatican-newspaper-denounces-sw.php. Although I ordinarily think that claims of Catholic bias and…

  • Conscience and Fr. Ratzinger

    Thanks to Rob for his joining me on the discussion on conscience and fidelity, a discussion we pursue frequently at the Mirror of Justice—and, I am confident, we will continue to discuss for some time…

  • Conscience and the Catholic voter in Maine

    We've talked about conscience and the Catholic voter before on MoJ, but it's worth revisiting in the context of the Maine same-sex marriage vote. The notion that a person is only obligated to follow a…

  • Cultivating a Franciscan sensibility among lawyers

    Even in his first post, Bob Hockett has contributed significantly to the Catholic legal theory project. There is a lot to explore along the lines of his Franciscan worldview and its implications for our understanding…

  • As goes Maine...

    Tomorrow voters in Maine will cast their individual ballots on the proposal to determine the meaning of marriage—the Question 1 initiative. A “yes” is a vote for the defining marriage as the union of one…


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