Chad Flanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chad Flanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chad |
| FAMILY NAME | Flanders |
| SIGNATURE | FLANDERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Louis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Blessings of Liberty
Criminal justice and the liberal good of ‘order’
Recent liberal political theory – and political philosophy generally – has had little to say about the criminal justice system, focusing instead on concerns of pluralism and social welfare. But I argue in this article that ‘order’ is a necessary precondition for any flourishing society, including a liberal one, and that the criminal justice system can be part of securing that order. Borrowing from Paul Weithman, I identify two types of order: ‘im…
The rise of corporate religious liberty
What are the rights of religious institutions? Should those rights extend to for-profit corporations? Houses of worship have claimed they should be free from anti-discrimination laws in hiring and firing ministers and other employees. Faith-based institutions, including hospitals and universities, have sought exemptions from requirements to provide contraception. Now, in a surprising development, large for-profit corporations have succeeded in as…
Public Wrongs and Public Reason
The distinction between crimes that involve wrongs in themselves and crimes that are wrong because the law makes them so has long puzzled theorists. This essay argues that the distinction, while getting at something real, is based on a mistake. That mistake is made both by those who see moral wrongness as a necessary condition for criminality and by those who believe merely making something illegal is sufficient to make it criminal. Neither is co…
Why Tolerate Religion
Suppose a fourteen-year-old boy comes to middle school wearing a dagger on his belt. Normally, the dagger would be confiscated and the boy reprimanded or suspended (or worse). But should the boy be allowed to keep the dagger on him if the dagger is no mere dagger but a central symbol of his family's religious beliefs? (It is part of the Sikh religion that men should wear daggers.) Would it make any difference if the dagger did not represent the b…
Adam Smith as Theologian
The Mutability of Public Reason
Rawls's “public reason” has not been without its critics. One criticism is that public reason is “conservative.” Public reason must rely on those beliefs that are “widely shared” among citizens. But if public reason relies on widely shared beliefs, how can it change without departing from those beliefs, thus violating public reason? In part one of my essay, I introduce the conservatism objection and describe two unsatisfactory responses to it. Pa…
Religious Liberty
Journal Article Religious Liberty: The Free Exercise Clause, Volume 2 Get access Religious Liberty: The Free Exercise Clause, Volume 2. By Douglas Laycock. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011. 871pp. $35.00 paper. Chad Flanders Chad Flanders Saint Louis University School of LawSaint Louis, Missouri [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volu…
Collected Works on Religious Liberty, Vol. 1
This is a massive book—in a lot of ways too massive—that collects several of Douglas Laycock's major papers in law and religion, along with some other assorted writings, op-eds, book reviews, letters to Congress, etc: thirty-nine pieces in all. What's more, it is only volume one of a projected four-volume series. As its title suggests, this volume consists mostly of overviews and essays on the history of religious liberty. Other, later volumes wi…
Criminal justice and the liberal good of ‘order’
Recent liberal political theory – and political philosophy generally – has had little to say about the criminal justice system, focusing instead on concerns of pluralism and social welfare. But I argue in this article that ‘order’ is a necessary precondition for any flourishing society, including a liberal one, and that the criminal justice system can be part of securing that order. Borrowing from Paul Weithman, I identify two types of order: ‘im…
Collected Works on Religious Liberty, Vol. 1
This is a massive book—in a lot of ways too massive—that collects several of Douglas Laycock's major papers in law and religion, along with some other assorted writings, op-eds, book reviews, letters to Congress, etc: thirty-nine pieces in all. What's more, it is only volume one of a projected four-volume series. As its title suggests, this volume consists mostly of overviews and essays on the history of religious liberty. Other, later volumes wi…
The Mutability of Public Reason
Rawls's “public reason” has not been without its critics. One criticism is that public reason is “conservative.” Public reason must rely on those beliefs that are “widely shared” among citizens. But if public reason relies on widely shared beliefs, how can it change without departing from those beliefs, thus violating public reason? In part one of my essay, I introduce the conservatism objection and describe two unsatisfactory responses to it. Pa…
Religious Liberty
Journal Article Religious Liberty: The Free Exercise Clause, Volume 2 Get access Religious Liberty: The Free Exercise Clause, Volume 2. By Douglas Laycock. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011. 871pp. $35.00 paper. Chad Flanders Chad Flanders Saint Louis University School of LawSaint Louis, Missouri [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volu…
Adam Smith as Theologian
Why Tolerate Religion
Suppose a fourteen-year-old boy comes to middle school wearing a dagger on his belt. Normally, the dagger would be confiscated and the boy reprimanded or suspended (or worse). But should the boy be allowed to keep the dagger on him if the dagger is no mere dagger but a central symbol of his family's religious beliefs? (It is part of the Sikh religion that men should wear daggers.) Would it make any difference if the dagger did not represent the b…
The rise of corporate religious liberty
What are the rights of religious institutions? Should those rights extend to for-profit corporations? Houses of worship have claimed they should be free from anti-discrimination laws in hiring and firing ministers and other employees. Faith-based institutions, including hospitals and universities, have sought exemptions from requirements to provide contraception. Now, in a surprising development, large for-profit corporations have succeeded in as…
Public Wrongs and Public Reason
The distinction between crimes that involve wrongs in themselves and crimes that are wrong because the law makes them so has long puzzled theorists. This essay argues that the distinction, while getting at something real, is based on a mistake. That mistake is made both by those who see moral wrongness as a necessary condition for criminality and by those who believe merely making something illegal is sufficient to make it criminal. Neither is co…
Criminal justice and the liberal good of ‘order’
Recent liberal political theory – and political philosophy generally – has had little to say about the criminal justice system, focusing instead on concerns of pluralism and social welfare. But I argue in this article that ‘order’ is a necessary precondition for any flourishing society, including a liberal one, and that the criminal justice system can be part of securing that order. Borrowing from Paul Weithman, I identify two types of order: ‘im…
The Blessings of Liberty
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Politics (3 works)