Religion & Law

As I mentioned a month or so ago, I'm teaching a seminar at Notre Dame Law School this semester called "Catholic Social Thought: Person, State & Society".  And, I'm having a great time.  (The students?  Well, you'll have to ask them.)  A recent meeting was dedicated to subsidiarity and pluralism, and we read:  Quadragessimo anno; Thomas C. Kohler, In Praise of Little Platoons, in G. Weigel & R. Royal, eds., Building the Free Society (1993); Richard W. Garnett, Jaycees Reconsidered:  Judge Richard S. Arnold and the Freedom of Association, 58 Ark. L. Rev. 587 (2005); John A. Coleman, S.J., A Limited State and a Vibrant Society:  Christianity and Civil Society, in Post & Rosenblum, eds., Civil Society and Government (2002); and selections from the Compendium (¶¶ 406-27).

Next week, the topics are "human rights and human dignity", and we'll read (inter alia) Pacem in terris; Lorenzo Albacete, A Theological Anthropology, in Recovering Self-Evident Truths; Mary Ann Glendon, Foundations of Human Rights:  The Unfinished Business, in Recovering Self-Evident Truths; & Jacques Maritain, Man and the State.

Is this a great job, or what?  (The rest of the semester's readings can be found after the jump, if you are interested.  Comments welcome!)

- (8)    Dignitatis humanae and Religious Freedom

-          Pope Paul VI, Dignitatis humanae (1965).

-          Compendium ¶¶ 69-71, 421-27.

-          Jacques Maritain, Man and the State 147-87.

-          J. McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom (excerpt).

-          Van Orden v. Perry (2005).

- (9)    Religious Freedom, cont?d

           -          Catholic Charities of Sacramento v. Superior Court (2004).

           -          Petruska v. Gannnon University (2006).

                       -          Andrew Koppelman, Is It Fair To Give Religion Special Treatment?, 2006 Ill. L. Rev. 571 (excerpt).

                       -          Marci A. Hamilton, The Waterloo for the So-Called Church-Autonomy Theory, 29 Cardozo L. Rev. 225 (2007) (excerpt) (excerpt).

                       -          Richard W. Garnett, Church, State, and the Practice of Love, 52 Villanova L. Rev. 281 (2007) (excerpt).

- (10) Family:  ?The First and Vital Cell of Society?

             -          Compendium ¶¶ 209-54.

                         -          Richard W. Garnett, The Story of Henry Adams?s Soul:  Education and the Expression of Associations, 85 Minn. L. Rev. 1841 (2001) (excerpt).

                         -          Richard W. Garnett, Taking Pierce Seriously:  The Family, Religious Education, and Harm to Children, 76 Notre Dame L. Rev. 109 (2000) (excerpt).

-          James G. Dwyer, Parents? Religion and Children?s Welfare:  Debunking the Myth of Parents? Rights, 82 Cal. L. Rev. 1371 (1994) (excerpt).

-         John J. Coughlin, O.F.M., Natural Law, Marriage, and the Thought of Karol Wojtyla, in Recovering Self-Evident Truths.

- (11) Social Justice and the Economic Order

-         Centesimus annus (1991), in Catholic Social Thought.

-         Compendium ¶¶ 323-76.

-         James Gordley, Contract Law:  A Catholic Approach?, in Recovering Self-Evident Truths.

-         Richard John Neuhaus, Property and Creativity, in Michael Novak, et al., eds., A Free Society Reader:  Principles for the New Millennium (2000).

-          Mark Sargent, Utility, the Good, and Civic Happiness:  A Catholic Critique of Law and Economics, 44 J. Catholic Leg. Stud. 35 (2005).

- (12) Catholic Social Thought and the Law:  Some Selected Applications

-          Michael A. Scaperlanda, A Catholic Christian Perspective on Immigration Justice, in Recovering Self-Evident Truths.

-          Compendium ¶¶ 297-300, 308-09.

-         Vincent D. Rougeau, Catholic Social Thought and the New Urbanism, in Recovering Self-Evident Truths.

-          Philip Bess, Till We Have Built Jerusalem:  Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred (2006) (excerpt).

-         Amelia J. Uelmen, Toward a Trinitarian Theory of Products Liability, in Recovering Self-Evident Truths.

- (13) Law, Lawyers, and Vocation

-          Compendium Ch. 6 (?Human Work?) (review).

-          Amy Barrett, Speech to Graduates of Notre Dame Law School (May 2006).

-          Elizabeth Rose Schiltz, Should Bearing a Child Mean Bearing All the Cost?  A Catholic Perspective on the Sacrifice of Motherhood and the Common Good, Logos (2007).

-          Gregory A. Kalscheur, Ignatian Spirituality and the Life of the Lawyer: Finding God in All Things ? Even in the Ordinary Practice of the Law, 46 J. Cath. Leg. Stud. 7 (2007).

-          John Breen, The Catholic Lawyer and the Meaning of Success, 40 Cath. Law. 227 (2001).

-          Thomas L. Shaffer, Roman Catholic Lawyers in the

United States

-          Avery Cardinal Dulles, Catholic Social Teaching and American Legal Practice, 30 Ford. Urb. L. J. 277 (2002).

- (14) The Future

             -          Pope Benedict XVI, Values in a Time of Upheaval (2006).

                         -          John A. Coleman, S.J., The Future of Catholic Social Thought, in K. Himes, et al., eds., Modern Catholic Social Teaching (2004).

-          Russell Shaw, Afterword:  Catholicism and the Two Cultures, in Recovering Self-Evident Truths.