Themes in Natural Law Jurisprudence
October 2–3 | Elm Library
Recent debates in American jurisprudence have returned fundamental questions regarding moral reasoning and the positive law to contemporary legal and political discourse. This intensive seminar for law students will reconsider the nature of moral reasoning in the natural law tradition, competing theories of Constitutional interpretation, and the shape of the moral claims associated with common good accounts of human society.
The seminar is open to Yale Law Students, and is capped at 14 participants. PhD students in political theory, philosophy, and religious studies will be considered on a case by case basis. Interested students should submit their CV to Patrick Hough.
Seminar Schedule
Friday, Oct 2
9.30–10.30 | Welcome and Introduction
10.30–10.45 | Break
10.45–12.15 | Natural Law Theories
12.15–1.30 | Lunch
1.30–3.00 | An Account of Positive Law
3.00–3.15 | Break
3.15–4.30 | Current Debates
4.30–5:30 | Break
5:30–7:30 | Dinner @ Mory’s
Saturday, Oct 3
9.00–9.30 | Breakfast
9.30–10.45 | Natural Law and American Constitutionalism
10.45–11.00 | Break
11.00–12.00 | Concluding Thoughts
12.00–1.00 | Lunch
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Good Government