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Fuller wrote maybe the best law review article ever, “The Case of the Speluncean Explorers.” Covers every theory of law (except divine command) and captures the most important enduring legal debates. And it’s fun. One of the few articles people will still be reading in 100 years.

Next month, the Notre Dame Press will release an English translation of Pierre Manent's recent book on Pascal. In our Scholarship Roundup: lawandreligionforum.org/2025/05/01/man…

This summer, Encounter Books will release a new collection of essays on law and morality by Robert P. George (James Madison Program). In our Scholarship Roundup: lawandreligionforum.org/2025/05/01/a-n…

We are excited to post the Mattone Center's annual year-end report for 2024-2025. Among the highlights: a new YouTube channel and animated video series on landmark cases in religious freedom; more Legal Spirits podcasts, the first ever Center Directors Summit; and many more. Read

I’m looking forward to participating later this month (online) in a very interesting conference organized by Professor Adelaide Madera at the University deli Studio di Messina, “Religious Freedom of Minority Groups in Times of Ongoing Crisis.” I’ll be speaking on one of the

I recently discovered the Great Seal of the US over an entrance to a Catholic Church in midtown Manhattan. An illustration of what I tell my seminar students: separation of church and state in the US is a complicated thing.

An interesting analysis of the history and impact of voting rules in the papal conclave from John O. McGinnis: lawliberty.org/consensus-of-t…

Evergreen tweet.

Maybe my favorite story about my former boss. A gentleman and genuinely witty man, for whom it was a privilege and delight to work. May he rest in peace.

The political scientist Ryan Burge 📊 points out that it's not true that Mainline Protestants are politically liberal. In the pews, they are "as purple as it gets." Among regular Mainline churchgoers, Trump won a whopping 69% of voters in 2024! More here: graphsaboutreligion.com

My recollections of Justice David Souter, a remarkable person and true gentleman, who never let Washington go to his head and treated his clerks with generosity and kindness--even when they messed up.

This might be an all-time great in The New York Times' long history of knowing absolutely nothing about the world's largest religion.

A lovely post by my friend Mark Movsesian. He is certainly right that Souter had remarkable personal qualities that particularly stood out in status focused Washington.

A contracts question: Seller sells, and buyer purchases, what both believe to be a copy of the Magna Carta for a price of $27. Scholars later determine the document to be an original, worth c. $21 million. If Seller seeks rescission on the basis of mutual mistake, what result?

Today is the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea!!! One of the most important events in world history, it was the first Ecumenical Council of the Church. It was called by Emperor Constantine the Great to settle matters with ecclesiastical consensus, such as Arianism.

Whitewashing Azerbaijan Undermines Religious Freedom christianpost.com/voices/azerbai… #Armenia #Azerbaijan

Delighted to announce that my former student and one of our Mattone Center for Law & Religion alums, Dan Vitagliano '20, will clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in October Term 2027. Dan was a student fellow in the Mattone Center from 2018 to 2020. Congrats, Dan!