Monday, October 3, at noon in room 4085, my good friend and former colleague William Brewbaker (associate dean and the William Alfred Rose professor of law at the University of Alabama) will be speaking to UNC's Christian Legal Society on "What is Christian Legal Thought?" Bill is the author of a number of important works on history, including "Thomas Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Law." This is part of an expansive study that Bill is working on, on the trajectory of legal thought from Aquinas to Calvin (hence the illustration of this post). And he has also written extensively on contemporary Christian legal thought -- including the engagingly named, "Who Cares? Why Bother? What Jeff Powell and Mark Tushnet Have to Say to One Another." The latter is an extended essay on Michael W. McConnell et al.'s Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (2001). Bill and Patrick Brennan are completing a casebook on Christian Legal Thought: Cases and Materials, which will be published by Foundation. You might also enjoy reading Bill's commentary from the Weekly Standard back in the spring of 2009, which compared Presidents Obama and Bush.
I am very much looking forward to hearing Bill. Who knows, in the question and answer we may even hear about his thoughts on Transcendentalism and the French Revolution -- two topics that we spent hours discussing when we were colleagues in Tuscaloosa.
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