Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy. Writing and teaching in the areas of law and religion, jurisprudence, and politics, his over one dozen books include Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015), A Second Look at First Things: A Case for Conservative Politics (St. Augustine Press, 2013), Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft (InterVarsity Press, 2010), Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air (Baker Books, 1998). His articles have appeared in a wide-range of journals including Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Journal of Law & Religion, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, Nevada Law Journal, International Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, San Diego Law Review, Liberty University Law Review, Ratio Juris, Christian Bioethics, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, Philosophia Christi, Catholic Social Science Review, Journal of Church & State, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Chapman Law Review, Journal of Social Philosophy, Human Life Review, and Social Theory and Practice.

M.J.S., School of Law, Washington University (St. Louis)
M.A., Ph.D., Fordham University

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Francis Joseph Beckwith

Professor of Philosophy & Church-Studies at Baylor University

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M.J.S., School of Law, Washington University (St. Louis)
M.A., Ph.D., Fordham University

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Francis Joseph Beckwith

Professor of Philosophy & Church-Studies at Baylor University

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M.J.S., School of Law, Washington University (St. Louis)
M.A., Ph.D., Fordham University

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Francis Joseph Beckwith

Professor of Philosophy & Church-Studies at Baylor University

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M.J.S., School of Law, Washington University (St. Louis)
M.A., Ph.D., Fordham University

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Francis Joseph Beckwith

Professor of Philosophy & Church-Studies at Baylor University

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M.J.S., School of Law, Washington University (St. Louis)
M.A., Ph.D., Fordham University

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Steven G. Calabresi

Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and Co-Chairman, Board of Directors, The Federalist Society

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STEVEN GOW CALABRESI is the Clayton J. & Henry R. Barber Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. He has also co-taught in the Fall semester at Yale Law School from 2013 to the present. Calabresi clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia and Judges Robert H. Bork and Ralph K. Winter. He was a Special Assistant to Attorney General Meese from 1985 to 1987 and worked with Ken Cribb as his deputy in 1987 on the second floor of the West Wing of the Reagan White House. Calabresi has written books on presidential power and comparative constitutional law and the origins of judicial review. He and Gary Lawson are the co-editors of a casebook on U.S. Constitutional Law, and Calabresi is also the co-editor of a casebook on comparative constitutional law. He has written over seventy law review articles since 1990.

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Francis Joseph Beckwith

Professor of Philosophy & Church-Studies at Baylor University

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M.J.S., School of Law, Washington University (St. Louis)
M.A., Ph.D., Fordham University

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