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Jurisprudence Reflecting Catholic Social Teaching
Jurisprudence Reflecting Catholic Social Teaching
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| Jurisprudence Reflecting Catholic Social Teaching offers students an opportunity to study the impact of Catholic social teaching on legal doctrine and procedure. Topics to be studied would be the relationship between individual rights and the common good, the basis for criminal punishment, the distribution of income, religious liberty and the state. Students would study historical thinkers such as Augustine and Aquinas, as well as more modern expressions such as the documents of Vatican II and the writings of John Paul II. | 2 | Irregularly |
In the Jesuit and Catholic law school tradition, Gonzaga University School of Law takes
an innovative and holistic approach to creating compassionate counselors committed
to public service and social justice.
an innovative and holistic approach to creating compassionate counselors committed
to public service and social justice.