Reading the Presumptive Textualism of Vermeulean Common Good Constitutionalism Between the Lines
One of the challenging features of interpreting Professor Adrian Vermeule’s Common Good Constitutionalism that Jeff Pojanowski and I encountered in Recovering Classical Legal Constitutionalism was to assess the extent to which Vermeule’s book is best read esoterically. We decided to respond to the exoteric argumentation on its own terms while also suggesting what we understood to […]
New LICIT Course Beginning Today: Natural Law and the American Experience
Beginning last spring, Bill Rooney and I have been offering a seminar each semester on Law in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (“LICIT”). This fall, the LICIT seminar is “Natural Law and the American Experience.” Here’s the course description: We will examine the content of natural law as understood in the American and Catholic traditions, invite […]
Throwback to the ’80s: Parents for Decency through Law at the Happy Times Store
As far as we know, which is only back to the 1860s on one side of the family and the early 1900s on the other, my brother Brendan and I are the only lawyers in our family. The wrinkle in this is that our mother, Bonnie Walsh, appeared in court as a quasi-lawyer or something […]
