"Natural Law and Conscience." Afternoon seminar presented annually to The Blackstone Fellows, Washington, D.C., 2000-2019.
"The Classical Natural Law Tradition." Morning scholarly seminar at American Studies Center Summer Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 2011.
“Wages of Sin? How Much Can I Get?” Presentation at an Austin Institute / Thomistic Institute panel, “Getting Away With It? The Natural Consequences of Moral Wrong,” April, 2025.
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
“The Philosophical Foundations of Friendship.” Three-day seminar, co-directed by me and Professor Daniel Bonevac, Civitas Institute, University of Texas at Austin, August, 2023.
“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.
“Rights, By Nature and By Grace.” Invited paper at “Christianity and Natural Rights Symposium,” October-November 2025, at Notre Dame Rome.
“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.
“Mercy, Yes, But Justice Too.” First Things, 22 September 2025.
“Why Is There Something and Not Rather Nothing? Hey, Whatever” Fifteen Eighty Four blog of Cambridge University Press (5 February 2025).
“How Happiness Studies Lets Us Down.” First Things, 5 February 2025.
Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy. Creed & Culture, forthcoming February 2026.
Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on the One God. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024.
How and How Not to Be Happy. Regnery, 2022.
At the University of Texas at Austin, my primary appointment is in Government; I am jointly appointed to the Philosophy Department and to the School of Civic Leadership; and I am a Faculty Fellow of the Civitas Institute. In addition, I teach some courses in the Department of Religious Studies and the Law School. Following is the chronology of my appointments.
2025-present: Received jointly appointment to the School of Civic Leadership, University of Texas at Austin.
2022-present: Faculty Fellow of the Civitas Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
Abbreviated curriculum vitae