University of Georgia

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Georgia presents a lecture by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. titled “Martin Luther King Jr and the Problem of Unjust Laws: What if the Courts (or the Voters) are Wrong?”

Thursday, March 16

6:00 PM

MLC 268

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.