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First Principles: Natural Law in History
Faculty Profiles 2012
Thomas D. D'Andrea is a Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is the Director of the International Society for Law and Morality (INSOLM). In 2001, he was a Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program in Princeton, and he has lectured with the Politics Department at Princeton and in the Department of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. His research interests include the moral and political thought of the Aristotelian tradition. He has published articles and reviews in ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.

Steven Justice is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches a variety of topics in medieval literary history, including: medieval religious thought, medieval Latin, classical traditions in medieval literature, the western tradition in literature, literary criticism, and Old English language and literature. Justice was a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, and a University of California Presidents Research Fellow in the Humanities. In addition, he was Council of the Humanities Fellow at Princeton University and Humanities Research Fellow at U. C. Berkeley. In 1995 he received the MLA Prize for Best First Book. Justice received his BA  from in English from Yale College and his PhD in English from Princeton University.

Geoffrey M. Vaughan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Assumption College. He has published on early modern, modern, and contemporary political philosophy and teaches classes on the history of political philosophy from Plato to the present. His special interests include citizenship in the modern world, civic education, and the political consequences of the interaction between reason and revelation. He is the author of Behemoth Teaches Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Political Education (2002). Vaughan received his DPhil from the University of Oxford.





















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