University of Georgia School of Law Professor Nathan S. Chapman presented “Christianity, Natural Rights, and Early American Constitutionalism” as part of an interdisciplinary, international symposium titled Natural Rights Across Denominational Divides at the University of Notre Dame‘s campus in Rome, Italy during November. 

This symposium invited Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox scholars to present and discuss papers debating and discussing the role of natural rights in their theological and legal traditions. The papers will be published in the American Journal of Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press).

Chapman currently serves as the law school’s associate dean for faculty development and holds the Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Law. He writes and teaches about constitutional law, especially constitutional rights, and law and religion. Most recently, he is the author, with Michael W. McConnell, of Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Promotes Religious Pluralism and Protects Freedom of Conscience (OUP, 2023).