'Law and Migration' to be topic of Constitution talk
“The Law of the Land: Reflections on Law and Migration” is the title of an Oct. 15 talk by Roger Scruton. Scheduled at 8 p.m. in Davis Auditorium of Palamountain Hall, the Alexander Hamilton Lecture in Constitutional Studies is free and open to the public.
Scruton will speak to the current crisis around migration in Europe and the various kinds of laws at issue in that crisis. Topics will include religious law, territorial law (legacy of Roman laws), the emergence of the nation-state, the idea of citizenship, and the modern notion of the rule of law.
A fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington and a contributing editor to The New Atlantis, Scruton in 2010 gave the Gifford Lectures in St Andrews under the title of “The Face of God.” The lectures have been collected and published under the title The Face of God (Continuum, 2012); in 2011 he gave the Stanton Lectures in the Divinity School at the University of Cambridge.
A writer, philosopher and public commentator, Scruton has specialized in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker and is well known as a powerful polemicist. He has written widely in the press on political and cultural issues. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a fellow of the British Academy. Among his other most recent books are Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England (Atlantic, 2012), Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2009); The Uses of Pessimism (Atlantic Books, 2010), and Green Philosophy (Atlantic, 2012; published in the United States as How to Think Seriously About the Planet).
For more information, please visit his web site.
