Daniel Mark sat down recently for a wide-ranging discussion of his new book and related themes earlier this month with the CRCD’s executive director Trey Dimsdale. That conversation closes out this month’s engagement with The Nature of Law.
Right-of-center writers on philosophy and law have penned some fascinating books in recent years calling attention to rights as well as their attendant obligations. From Adrian Vermeulewith Common Good Constitutionalism, to Erika Bachiochi with The Rights of Women, to Hadley Arkes, my own boss and mentor, with his Mere Natural Law, no shortage of scholarly energy has
If you want to practice law, you go to law school. If you want to understand what law actually is, you should also study a quirky subdiscipline of both jurisprudence and philosophy that goes by the name of “philosophy of law.” No serious person can deny the reality of law.
I often joke that legal philosophers concern themselves primarily with two kinds of law: traffic laws . . . and Nazi law. (This juxtaposition is not based on anyone’s feelings at having received a parking ticket.) Let me introduce the two kinds in turn, beginning with traffic laws and what
