Does virtue and character matter in business? Can workplaces be transformed by the caliber of people present? What insights do scripture and the Christian tradition of theological and philosophical reflection offer for the challenges of the modern workplace?

In my response to Nigel Biggar’s book What’s Wrong with Rights, I argue that an epidemic of rights-fundamentalism does not require the complete rejection of all rights language.

In my paper I argue that developments within legal ethics—specifically a return to emphasizing the importance of precepts for governing communities capable of forming virtue and for protecting the vulnerable—can contribute to discussions in theological ethics regarding the rule of precepts for the church’s formation of its members in virtue.

In this symposium contribution, I argue that Francisco Suárez’s understanding of the community’s development of “permissive natural law” related to economic activity provides a useful and creative interjection into discussions of the goals of businesses and economic activity.

Socially responsible investment (SRI) has become a major intervention in global investment practices that responds to the power of institutional investors to affect corporate practice.

In Law’s Empire, legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin develops his theory of “law as integrity.” According to Dworkin, the idea of “law as integrity” requires judges to consider both external norms of justice and equality, and the internal moral coherence of the legal system within which they operate, to arrive at one right answer in legal interpretation.