The University of St. Thomas

Plenary Addresses and Panelists

Public Policy, Prudential Judgment and the Catholic Social Tradition 
Annual Conference: Spring 2006

April 6-8, 2006
University of St. Thomas
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
 

Plenary Addresses
John McGreevy
Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

Christopher Wolfe
Professor of Political Science, Marquette University

Christopher Wolfe is a professor of political science at Marquette University, and Vice-President of the McInerny Center.  His main area of research and teaching for two decades was Constitutional Law and American Political Thought, and he is the author of The Rise of Modern Judicial Review (Basic Books, 1986; revised edition, Rowman and Littlefield, 1994), Judicial Activism: Bulwark of Liberty or Precarious Security? (revised edition, Rowman and Littlefield, 1997), and How to Read the Constitution (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).  

Dr. Wolfe's current work has shifted to the area of natural law and liberal political theory and his book Natural Law Liberalism is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press this June.  He is the editor of Liberalism at the Crossroads, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003) and (with Robert George) of Natural Law and Liberal Public Reason (Georgetown University Press, 2000). 

In 1989, Dr. Wolfe founded the American Public Philosophy Institute (www.appii.org), a group of scholars from various disciplines that seeks to bring natural law theory to bear on contemporary scholarly and public discussions.  He recently became Vice-President of the Thomas International project (www.thomasinternational.org), which sponsors the Ralph McInerny Center for Thomistic Studies.


Plenary Panelists
Michael Baxter
University of Notre Dame

Charles Clark
St. John’s University

David Durenberger
University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)

Rollen E. Houser
University of St. Thomas (Houston)

Rev. Joseph Koterski
Fordham University

Robert Vischer
University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) School of Law