March 27 — 30, 2008
The Catholic University of America
Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture
William J. Wagner
Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture, Director
William J. Wagner, who created and organized this conference, is director of the Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture and professor of law at The Catholic University of America. His legal scholarship is in constitutional law and jurisprudence. He is also a moral theologian. The center provides a forum for dialogue on the meaning of law and legal institutions for culture and the human good.
Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture
The Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture provides a forum for inquiry into the meaning of law and legal institutions for culture and the human good. It sponsors academic explorations of the diverse ways in which law and legal institutions may express a cultural orientation to the human good or serve to renew and transform culture in the light of moral ideals. The scope of the center’s inquiry encompasses the fields of jurisprudence, philosophy of law, comparative law, and social and political ethics. It fosters multidisciplinary collaboration between legal scholars and experts in such adjunct disciplines as philosophy theology, history, literature, the arts, anthropology and politics. It derives inspiration for its work from the vision of culture and the human good found in the Catholic social encyclicals. The center regularly convenes academic conferences, public lectures and faculty seminars.