Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University, 1981.
M.A., Political Science, University of Florida, 1977.
B.A., Political Science, University of South Florida, 1975.
Before matriculating at the University of South Florida, spent several years at the University of Chicago, followed by several years as a welder.
How the varieties of law are related
James Madison Program, Princeton, 2011
"Natural Law and Conscience." Afternoon seminar presented annually to The Blackstone Fellows, Washington, D.C., 2000-present.
"The Classical Natural Law Tradition." Morning scholarly seminar at American Studies Center Summer Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 2011.
Roundtable on "Natural Law." Acton Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June, 2018.
James Wilson Institute. Participant in the Wilson Institute’s biennial roundtables on natural law and jurisprudence, chaired by Hadley Arkes, 2011-2015
"Liberty in Walter Lippmann's The Public Philosophy." Liberty Fund colloquium, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2009.
“The Architecture of Law.” Sołek Academic and Cultural Center, Poznań, Poland, June, 2021.
“Flavors of the Common Good.” Conversations Series, Common Good Project, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, March, 2021.
“What Makes Men Men?” Conference on “The Meaning of Fatherhood,” Fellowship of St. James, held at Trinity University, Deerfield, Illinois.
“Morality: What We Can’t Not Know.” Columbia University, New York, October, 2018.
“Of Course Human Law Develops: Can Natural and Divine Law Develop?” Symposium on “Aquinas on the Development of Law,” Aquinas Institute, held at the Blackfriars, Oxford University, Oxford, England, March, 2019.
“Faith, Natural Law, and the Common Good.” Conference on “Christianity and the Common Good,” Dominican House of Studies, held at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Why the Natural Law Is for Everyone.” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 23.4 (Winter 2023).
“Happiness Is a Warm Company? Human Well-Being Isn’t a Skill and No Business-School Course Can Teach It.” Wall Street Journal, March, 2022.
“Children Who Lose Their Faith: What Can You Do?” Daily Wire, March, 2022.
Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on the One God. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024.
How and How Not to Be Happy. Regnery, 2022.