This book is one of the most comprehensive surveys of American legal topics by a gathering of major Catholic legal scholars. Contributors explore, among other subjects, bankruptcy, bioethics, corporate law, ethics, immigration, and many different aspects of constitutional law, including religious freedom, privacy rights, and free speech.

Professor Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government at the University of Mississippi School of Law. In addition to serving as an advisor to the Holy See's mission to the United Nations, he has authored or coauthored eight books on law and modern Catholic history.

Foreword by Gerard V. Bradley
Preface
1.Religion and Roman Catholicism in American Legal History
Michael Ariens
2.The Ethics of Lawyers and Judges: Perspectives from Catholic Social Teaching
Robert A. Destro
3.A Brief History of American Catholic Legal Education: The Arc of an Uncertain Identity
John M. Breen and Lee J. Strang
4.Philosophy of Law
Robert P. George
5.Tort Law from a Catholic Perspective
Ronald J. Rychlak
6.American Corporate Law and Catholic Social Thought
John M. Czarnetzky
7.The Meaning of Person: A Catholic Legal Perspective
Robert John Araujo, SJ
8.Church and State
Richard S. Myers
9.First Amendment Freedoms and the Right of Privacy: The Necessary Connection Between Rights and Human Dignity That the U.S. Supreme Court Often Fails to Make
Stephen M. Krason
10.Equal Protection, Free Speech, and Religious Worship
Timothy J. Tracey
11.United States Immigration Law and Policy Through a Catholic Lens
Michael A. Scaperlanda
12.Human Dignity and the Death Penalty: Comparing Catholic Social Teaching and Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence
Dorie Klein
13.Fidelity and Fairness in Marital Commitments, Covenants, and Contractual Relationships: Mulieris Dignitatem's Wisdom
Kevin H. Govern
14.Catholic Perspectives on Family Law
Bill Piatt
15.The Odd Couple: Comparing U.S. Military Law and Roman Catholic Ideology
Richard V. Meyer
16.Property Law
D. Brian Scarnecchia
17.The Call to Stewardship: A Catholic Perspective on Environmental Responsibility
Lucia A. Silecchia
18.American Bankruptcy Law and Catholic Social Theory
John M. Czarnetzky
19.Intellectual Property
Thomas C. Berg
20.Labor and Employment Law
David L. Gregory
21.International Human Rights, Catholic Social Teaching, and American Practice: The Case of Human Rights Treaty Committees
William L. Saunders
22.Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Strategy for the Pro-Life Movement
Hadley Arkes
Index