Higher Law Questions: A Prelude to the Symposium

Abstract

This conference asks us to consider two questions that are unusual for an academic conference in our time. They might have seemed like unusual questions in earlier times as well-but for a different reason: the answers might have seemed so plain that the questions hardly needed asking. "Is there a higher law? And does it matter?" Three centuries ago, or four, or seven, it might have seemed obvious that the answers were "yes" and "yes."