On May 30, the State Department announced that it was setting up a Commission on Unalienable Rights to advise the Secretary of State, and “provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where ...

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Constitutional theorists on the right are engaged in a debate about the moral foundations of originalism, the theory that government officials, including judges, are bound by the original meaning of ...

It's been a good week for natural law. People are talking about it even if they do not mention it by name. David Brooks, at the Aspen Ideas Festival, spoke about the pattern of "rupture and repair" ...

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, by Pierre Manent (University of Notre Dame Press, 149 pp., $29) Russell Kirk once described natural law as “an ethical knowledge, ...

Since I have just said a few words on natural law and economic freedom, I want to say a few words about a natural law conception of social justice and how it can help us now. Some people think social ...

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the role of natural law in American law. Several important scholars, such as Jud Campbell and Richard H. Helmholz, have ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Philippine Bishop Broderick Pabaillo, left, leads a prayer after celebrating Mass with human rights advocates condemning extra judicial killings, at the Redemptorist Church in Manila in this Aug. 10, ...

There is an ongoing debate among scholars and commentators about the compatibility of originalism and the natural-law tradition. Most prominently, Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule and emeritus ...