Can a Dead Constitution Bind the Living? - Dayton Lawyers

Join the Dayton Lawyers Chapter for a lunch event!

Featuring:

• Prof. Bruce Frohnen, Professor of Law, Ohio Northern Law School

If mentioned at all in law school, natural law is dismissed as a mere remnant of religious superstition and bigotry. This is unfortunate because our Constitution and underlying legal order are products of natural law thinking. In fact, natural law reasoning is the only legal reasoning we have. Equity, rules of statutory interpretation, the standard of justice, and our very understanding of what it means to be a “reasonably prudent person” all are governed by natural law understandings. Natural law is neither dead nor irrelevant but buried beneath subjective assertions of “public policy” and other covers for the political preferences of judges and the legal academy. It’s time to revisit the basic premises and understandings of natural law in the American context.

Tickets:

Registration: $15

Includes lunch.

This event is closed to the press

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