The Mighty Work of Making Nations Happy: A. Response to James Davison Hunter, Pepperdine Law Review (forthcoming) (2013)

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Are Catholics Unreliable From a Democratic Point of View? And What Does it Mean if They Are? Thoughts on the Occasion of the Sixtieth Anniversary of Paul Blanshard's American Freedom and Catholic Power, Villanova Law Review (2011)

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Are Legislation and Rules a Problem in Law? Thoughts on the Work of Joseph Vining, Villanova Law Review (2011)

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The Individual Mandate, Sovereignty, and the Ends of Good Government: A Reply to Professor Randy Barnett, University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2011)

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Comments on Robert Vischer's Conscience and the Common Good: Reclaiming the Space Between Person and State (Invited), Journal of Catholic Legal Studies (2010)

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Delivering the Goods: Herein of Delegation, Authority and the Mead Case, Michigan State Law Review (2009)

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The Place of "Higher Law" in the Quotidian Practice of Law: Herein of Practical Reason, Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Sex Toys, The Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy (2009)

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Equality, Conscience, and the Liberty of the Church: Justifying the Controversiale per Controversialius, Villanova Law Review (2009)

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Persons, Participating, and "Higher Law", Pepperdine Law Review (2009)

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Differentiating Church and State (Without Losing the Church), Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy (2009)

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Introduction to The Vocation of the Child, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (2008)

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Locating Authority in Law, and Avoiding the Authoritarianism of Textualism, Notre Dame Law Review (2008)

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A Quandary in Law? A (Qualified) Catholic Denial, San Diego Law Review (2007)

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The Contributions of Catholics to the Socio-Political Order, Catholic University Law Review (2007)

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The Decreasing Ontological Density of the State in Catholic Social Doctrine, Villanova Law Review (2007)

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Against Sovereignty: A Cautionary Note on the Normative Power of the Actual, Notre Dame Law Review (2006)

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J.C. Murray and the Natural Law: Comments on a paper by Professor Thomas Berg, Journal of Catholic Social Thought (2006)

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Harmonizing Plural Societies: The Case of Lasallians, Families, Schools – and the Poor, Journal of Catholic Legal Studies (2006)

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Law, Natural Law, and Human Intelligence: Living the Correlation, Catholic University Law Review (2006)

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The ‘Right’ of Religious Liberty of the Child: Its Meaning, Measure, and Justification, Emory International Law Review (symposium issue) (2006)

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Asking the Right Questions: Harnessing the Insights of Bernard Lonergan for the Rule of Law (lead article), Journal of Law and Religion (2006)

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Law and Who We Are Becoming, Villanova Law Review (2005)

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On What Sin (and Grace) Can Teach Crime, Punishment and Society (Symposium Volume) (2003)

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Arguing for Human Equality, Journal of Law and Religion (2002)

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Realizing the Rule of Law in the Human Subject, Boston College Law Review (2002)

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Natural Law and Human Equality (with John E. Coons), American Journal of Jurisprudence (1995)

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The Idea of a Descriptive Equality: Lonergan Explains Jefferson (with John E. Coons), Lonergan Workshop Journal (ed. Fred Lawrence, Boston College) (1995)

Legal Affinities: Studies in the Legal Form of Thought (forthcoming) (2013)

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The Vocation of the Child (with Marcia Bunge, William Werpehowski, John Coons, Vigen Guroian, William Harmless, Philip Reynolds, Anthony Kelly, Charles Reid, John Witte, Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Charles Glenn, George Van Grieken, Elmer John Thiessen, and Robert Vischer) (2008)

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Civilizing Authority: Society, State, and Church (with Avery Cardinal Dulles, Russell Hittinger, John Coons, Steven Smith, Thomas Kohler, J. Budziszewski, Joseph Vining, Michael J. White, Glenn Tinder, and H. Jefferson Powell) (2007)

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By Nature Equal: The Anatomy of a Western Insight (with John E.E. Coons) (1999)

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Forgiveness and Self-Love: A Holy Alliance?, Forgiveness (2009)

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Children Play with God: A Contemporary Thomistic Understanding of the Child, The Vocation of the Child (2008)

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Sovereign States? The State of the Question from a Catholic Perspective, Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law (2007)

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Introduction to Civilizing Authority: Society, State and Church, Civilizing Authority: Society, State and Church (2007)

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Jacques Maritain: Philosopher of Law, Politics, and All That Is, The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics and Human Nature: Volume Two (2006)

Review of Patrick J. Hayes, A Catholic Brain Trust: The History of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual Affairs, 1945-1965 (University of Notre Dame Press 2011), The Catholic Historical Review (Forthcoming) (2012)

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Review of Jean Porter, Ministers of the Law (Eerdmans 2010), First Things (2011)

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Review of Christopher Cullen, Maritain and America (Catholic University of America Press 2010), Journal of Church and State (2011)

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Giving Effect to the Natural Law, Review of Hadley Arkes, Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchtone of Natural Law (Cambridge University Press) (2010)

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Review of Stephen M. Krason, The Public Order and the Sacred Order: Contemporary Issues, Catholic Social Thought, and the Western and American Legal Traditions (Scarecrow Press 2009) (Invited), American Catholic Studies (2010)

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Review of Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law (Ana Marta Gonzalez ed., Ashgate 2009) (Invited), Review of Metaphysics (2009)

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Review of John DiIulio, Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future (University of California Press 2007) (Invited), American Catholic Studies (2008)

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What's the Matter With You Catholics? Soundings in Catholic Social Thought (Review of Mary Ann Glendon, Traditions in Turmoil, 2006) (Invited), Journal of Law, Philosophy and Culture (2008)

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Review of David Yamane, The Catholic Church in State Politics: Negotiating Prophetic Demands & Political Realities (Rowman & Littlefield 2005) (Invited), American Catholic Studies (2006)

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Meaning's Edge, Love's Priority (Review of J.B. White, The Edge of Meaning, 2002) (Invited), Michigan Law Review (2003)

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Review of Thomas J. Rourke, A Conscience as Large as the World: Yves R. Simon Versus the Catholic Neoconservatives (Rowman & Littlefield 1997) (Invited), Journal of Law and Religion (2002)

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Review of Michael McConnell, Angela C. Carmella, & Robert F. Cochran Jr., Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (Yale University Press 2001) (Invited), Journal of Law and Religion (2001)

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Of Marriage and Monks, Community and Dialogue (Review of John Witte Jr., From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition, 1997) (Invited), Emory Law Journal (1999)

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FREE EXERCISE! Following Conscience, Opening Politics, and Developing Doctrine (Review of John T. Noonan, The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom, 1998) (Invited), Notre Dame Law Review (1999)

Discovering the Archimedean Element in (Judicial) Judgment (Review of Bruce Anderson, "Discovery" in Legal Decision Making, 1996), Law and Philosophy: An International Journal for Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy (1998)

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Political Liberalism's Tertium Quiddity: Neutral "Public Reason" (Review of Michael White, Partisan or Neutral? The Futility of Public Political Theory, 1997), American Journal of Jurisprudence (1998)

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Two Cheers for the Constitution of the United States: A Response to Professor Lee J. Strang (2012)

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Joseph Vining's From Newton's Sleep (2011)

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Conscience and the Common Good: An Alternative Perspective (2011)

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Bologna Revisited (First Things, August 2009) (2009)

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Commentary in "School Choice: The Moral Debate" (Alan Wolfe ed., Princeton University Press 2003) (Comments on papers by Michael Perry, Martha Minow, and Rosemary Salomone) (2003)

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To Beginning Law Students (First Things, December 2002) (2002)

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School Choice Among Competing "Catholic" Philosophies (with John E. Coons) (2002)