Seminar Overview
Moral Foundations of Law is a comprehensive, week-long program investigating the relationship between sound norms of critical morality and the civil law. Under the direction of Gerard V. Bradley (Notre Dame Law School), the seminar covers some of the most challenging questions facing law students today, including the moral justifying aim of punishing criminals, morals legislation, marriage and family, legal positivism and natural law theory, the right to privacy, and church and state. Evening lectures are presented by legal experts, including appellate court judges and law professors.

Seminar Participants
Rising 2L and 3L students of law; rising 2nd and 3rd year graduate students in political philosophy.

Seminar Faculty:
Gerard V. Bradley, Notre Dame Law School
Robert P. George, Princeton University
John Keown, Georgetown University
Patrick Lee, Franciscan University of Steubenville

Guest Speaker
Diane Sykes, U.S. Court of Appeals of the 7th Circuit

Past Guest Speakers and Seminar Leaders:
John M. Finnis, Oxford University; Notre Dame Law School
Edith Clement, U.S. Court of Appeals of the 5th Circuit
Edith Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals of the 5th Circuit

Select Readings:
 - Lee and George, Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (Cambridge University Press: 2008)
 - Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights (Oxford University Press)