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It's My Right: Understanding Natural Rights and the Purpose of Politics

New York University

The Thomistic Institute at New York University presents a lecture by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies titled “It's My Right: Understanding Natural Rights and the Purpose of Politics.”

Thursday, April 13

6:15 PM

NYU Catholic Center Lecture Room

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an Assistant Professor in systematic theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001 and was ordained a priest in 2007. He practiced law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice before becoming a Dominican.

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