I am a Professor of Law at the University of Alabama. My research interests include health care law, antitrust and theological perspectives on law.
Articles
Book Review, Stephen J. Grabill, Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics, Journal of Law and Religion (2008)
Thomas Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Law, Alabama Law Review (2007)
Despite modernity’s longstanding aversion to metaphysics, legal scholars are increasingly questioning whether law can be...
Found Law, Made Law and Creation: Reconsidering Blackstone's Declaratory Theory, Journal of Law and Religion (2007)
The subject of this paper is Blackstone’s famous declaratory theory of law– the claim that...
Learning to Love the State Action Doctrine, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (2006)
The state action doctrine receives relatively little attention in the Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice...
Who Cares? Why Bother?: What Jeff Powell and Mark Tushnet Have to Say to Each Other, Oklahoma Law Review (2002)
This essay reviews Michael W. McConnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., and Angela Carmella's <em>Christian Perspectives...
Books
Contributions to Books
Popular Press
Unpublished Papers
THE REST OF THE TREATISE: THOMAS AQUINAS ON THE BIBLE AND LAW, ExpressO (2009)
Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Law is enjoying a resurgence of interest among legal scholars. It...
THEORY, IDENTITY, VOCATION: THREE MODELS OF CHRISTIAN LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP, Seton Hall Law Review, forthcoming (2009)
Recognizably Christian scholarship is becoming more commonplace in the American legal academy, yet little systematic...
Law, Higher Law, and Human Making, Pepperdine Law Review (forthcoming) (2008)
This paper examines what Christian theology teaches about the nature of human creative activity, and...