Law

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Lessons From England

Aaron Taylor

When I was a new convert to Catholicism I used to visit an elderly priest for tea…

Capital Punishment and the Sex Abuse Crisis

Michael Pakaluk

Many sense that the hierarchy’s rejection of capital punishment and their complacency about clergy sexual abuse are…

Compelling Tolerance

Darel E. Paul

Jack Phillips barely had time to catch his breath. Less than a month after the Supreme Court…

An Appeal to the Cardinals of the Catholic Church

Various

Pope Francis has revised the Catechism of the Catholic Church to read, “the death penalty is inadmissible…

Boris and the Burqa

Carl R. Trueman

Boris Johnson, the wily faux-buffoon of British politics, has done it again, causing the twittering classes to…

Cardinal Dulles’s Dubia

Michael Pakaluk

Let us allow another cardinal to be, in effect, the author of several dubia. Writing in First…

Pope Francis and Capital Punishment

Edward Feser

In a move that should surprise no one, Pope Francis has once again appeared to contradict two…

Re-Evangelizing Law

Peter J. Leithart

In the decades since 1973, abortion law has morphed into a First Amendment issue. Decisive arguments turn…

A Personal Case for Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Richard W. Garnett

It has become something of a ritual among legal junkies and Supreme Court watchers: After nine months…

The Diversity Nominee

Robert P. George

In the old days, an unwritten understanding, honored by presidents of both political parties, had it that…

How to Overturn Roe

Josh Craddock

With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, legal commentators on both left and right speculate that the…

Overturning Roe v. Wade

R. R. Reno

More than sixty million abortions have been performed in America since Roe v. Wade was decided in…

Another Pro-Life Victory?

Hadley Arkes

Pro-lifers are celebrating the decision announced by the Supreme Court on Tuesday in National Institute of Family…

Taking on the Big-Money Left

Mark Bauerlein

The other day we learned that the Southern Poverty Law Center, which classifies defenders of religious liberty…

Conservative Jurisprudence Resorts to Relativism

Hadley Arkes

Jack Phillips is the now-famous owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, the baker who in 2012…