Introduction to ‘Virtue and Law’ symposium

Symposium Creativity and the Law Introduction: Creativity and the Law

Creativity is on the American mind. President Obama routinely suggests that creativity and ingenuity are the keys to America’s economic future.1 Bill Gates emphasizes the power of creativity to solve the world’s most pressing, and most difficult, problems.2 But the creativity story is, of late, usually bleakly told: indeed, a recent Newsweek cover story proclaimed a “Creativity Crisis.”3 Last N...

Symposium: Creativity and the Law: Introduction

Law, science, and innovation: introduction to the symposium.

175 Law and lawyers play an ever more important role in the development and use of science. Often, the relations between law and science are the stuff of ordinary business, fitting scientific activity into an existing infrastructure of intellectual property, contract, products liability, and tort law. At other times lawmakers may use science to identify harms and take regulatory action, which t...

Virtue Ethics and Animal Law

This essay explores virtue ethical concepts in the context of animal law theory and practice. For reasons discussed in the essay, virtue ethics may not, on its own, serve as an adequate foundation for general anticruelty statutes, but it may have application in those contexts in which sufficient sharing of values enables participants in legal reform to work through differences in moral commitme...

Symposium: The Sacred Body in Law and Literature - Introduction