What Makes A Law Good | Father Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 27, 2023, at the Thomistic Institute in DC, on Capitol Hill For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an Assistant Professor in systematic theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001 and was ordained a priest in 2007. He practiced law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice before becoming a Dominican.

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0:53.8	Thank you, Shay. That's really marvelous. And I'm really honored to be here. To speak from a podium like this is not typical for me. But it's, I guess I need to leave that there. But it's a great privilege to be with all of you.
1:09.0	What makes a law good? That's an interesting and also
1:14.8	difficult question, or at least difficult for some people. I think if we look at it carefully,
1:20.6	though, maybe we can make some progress, and that's what I hope to do. In a relatively short period of
1:24.9	time, I know that everyone here is busy and has work to get
1:28.0	back to, so I don't want to take up too much of your time with abstract theological considerations,
1:34.3	but I think some very basic distinctions can help us make some progress on this very important
1:39.4	question, and a question obviously very important for a place like U.S. Congress.
1:46.0	So what makes a law good? And how can you tell? There are lots of competing accounts,
1:50.0	I think, if you were to just take a poll, perhaps, about what makes a law good.
1:54.0	And perhaps around here, the first starting point might be, well, it's good for my policy perspective.
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