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2012: Exploring the Many Facets of Justice

In 2012, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture devoted its thirteenth annual Fall Conference to the theme “The Crowning Glory of the Virtues: Exploring the Many Facets of Justice.” In customary interdisciplinary fashion, this conference took up many questions related to both the nature of justice and the varied and often-conflicting ideas of how to establish justice in our hearts and in our world. Watch video recordings of the presentations using the links below.

Featured Presentations

• "Reflections on the Quasi Judicial Role of the Prosecutor," Mark Filip, former Acting Attorney General of the United States

• "Catholic Instead of What?” Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame; response by Sean Kelsey, University of Notre Dame

• “The Moral Limits of Markets,” Robert P. George, Princeton University; Michael Sandel, Harvard University

• “The Priority of Persons Revisited,” John Finnis, Oxford University, University of Notre Dame

• “The American Project,” Patrick Deneen, University of Notre Dame, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Rice University, V. Philip Munoz, University of Notre Dame

• “Justice in the Christian Tradition,” Mary Keys, University of Notre Dame; John Cavadini, University of Notre Dame; Brad Gregory, University of Notre Dame

• “Justice in Transition from Conflict,” R. Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame; Gerald Powers, University of Notre Dame; Daniel Philpott, University of Notre Dame

• “Justice for the Least Among Us,” Margaret Brinig, University of Notre Dame; Michael Jenuwine, University of Notre Dame; James Kelly, University of Notre Dame

• “Free Market Fairness,” John Tomasi, Brown University; response by James Sullivan, University of Notre Dame

• “Justice and Plato’s Republic,” John O’Callaghan, University of Notre Dame; Catherine Zuckert, University of Notre Dame; David O’Connor, University of Notre Dame

• “Justice and St. Thomas Aquinas,” Jean Porter, University of Notre Dame; Rev. Kevin Flannery, S.J., Pontifical Gregorian University; Anna Moreland, Villanova University

• “Justice, Mercy, and Punishment in Dostoevesky and American Criminal Law,” Nick Maistrellis, St. John’s College; Chester Burke, St. John’s College; Christopher Slobogin, Vanderbilt University

• “Religious Liberty and Justice,” Richard Garnett, University of Notre Dame; Michael Moreland, Villanova University; Paul Horwitz, University of Alabama

• “Justice and Plato’s Statesman,” Eva Brann, St. John’s College; Peter Kalkavage, St. John’s College; Eric Salem, St. John’s College

• “Rawls and Justice,” Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame; David Solomon, University of Notre Dame

• "Constitutional Structure as a Mechanism of Justice," 

• “Justice, State-Craft, and Modern Science,” Phillip Sloan, University of Notre Dame; Don Howard, University of Notre Dame; Lorenza Violini, University of Milan

• “Elementary Human Experience and the Foundations of Law,” Paolo Carozza, University of Notre Dame; Elizabeth Schiltz, University of St. Thomas; Andrea Simoncini, University of Florence

Past Conferences

• 2013: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
• 2012: Exploring the Many Facets of Justice
• 2011: Radical Emancipation
• 2010: Younger Than Sin
• 2009: The Summons of Freedom
• 2008: The Family
• 2007: Dialogue of Cultures
• 2006: Modernity
• 2005: Joy in the Truth
• 2004: Epiphanies of Beauty
• 2003: Formation and Renewal
• 2002: From Death to Life
• 2001: A Culture of Life
• 2000: A Culture of Death