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The Power Of Language Beyond Words: Law As Invitation, Emily A. Hartigan

Faculty Articles

Law is an invitation to fuller life, more than a mere instrument of force, coercion, and death, which is imprinted within each person and which animates the ideas of our constitutions and statutes. Our laws should seek to reflect and be unified with God’s Law, and the process towards that end requires disclosure and trust, which, in turn, requires clarity of one’s whole person, which is achieved through prayerfulness.

Much of academia and society only recognizes the evil present in our law and society; however, where there is evil or negativity, goodness and that which is positive must have preceded …

“Make The Ring In Your Mind” (Book Review), Emily A. Hartigan

Faculty Articles

aking All the Difference, by Martha Minow, promised to render the multiple differences of race, gender, disability, and orientation, part of a whole discourse on difference. In this, the book is a success. Yet, the contradiction which Minow’s ideas play with her genre is bothersome. It is not that her way of writing is not valuable. Minow is remarkably lucid. But what she names at the outset—a relational approach, with a sensitivity to boundaries—she does not deliver. That conundrum, and why it seems to be—but is not—the unavoidable dilemma of the gifted female scholar in law today, is worth investigating.