CUA Columbus School of Law

William J. Wagner
Professor and Director
The Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture

Since joining the faculty at the Columbus School of Law in 1984, Professor Wagner has taught constitutional law, jurisprudence, contracts, agency and partnership, law and literature, and law and religion. He is currently the director of the school's Interdisciplinary Program in Law and Religion and has organized conferences on "Death and Dying and Burial: Approaches in Religious Law and Pratice," "Jubilee Year Reflections on Catholic Social Thought: Anticipating the Kingdom," and "A Comparative Law Colloquium: The Value of Free Speech and Its Reasoned Limits in the Constitutional Systems of the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany." In 1995 Professor Wagner received a Fulbright Grant as a visiting research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany.

Prof. Wagner received a bachelor's degree in 1975 from the University of California at Los Angeles, his J.D. from Yale University in 1978, and a master's degree in 1983 from The Catholic University of America. He also earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 2002.

BOOKS

The Contractual Reallocation of Procreative Resources and Parental Rights: The Natural Endowment Critique. Brookfield, Vt.: Dartmouth Press, 1995.

BOOK CHAPTERS

"The Right to Accommodation: Should It Be Legislatively Recognized?" In Selective Conscientious Objection, Accommodating Conscience and Security. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989.

BOOK REVIEWS

"Review of The Inner Experience of Law: A Jurisprudence of Subjectivity by David Granfield." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 4 (Spring 1988): 479.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

"Christianity and the Civil Law: Secularity, Privacy, and the Status of Objective Moral Norms." St. John's Law Review 71 (Winter 1997): 515.

"The Role of Basic Values in the Contemporary Constitutional Hermeneutics of Germany and the United States." Heidelberg Journal of International Law 56, no. 1-2 (1996): 178.

"Supremacy and Integrity: Member-State Law as a Limiting Principle in the United States and the European Union." Soundings 79 (Fall/Winter 1996): 349.

"In Search of the Market's Moral Limits: Liberalism, Perfectionism, and 'The Bad Man' in Christian Perspective." Journal of Law and Religion 11, no. 2 (1994-95): 535.

"The Just and the Holy Are One: The Role of Eschatology in Harold Berman's Vision of Normative Jurisprudence." Emory Law Journal 42 (Fall 1993): 1045.

"The Contractual Reallocation of Procreative Resources and Parental Rights: The Natural Endowment Critique." Case Western Reserve Law Review 41 (Fall 1990): 1.

"The Ethical and Legal Implications of Hired Maternity." American Journal of Jurisprudence 35 (1990): 187.

"The New Reproductive Technologies and the Law: A Roman Catholic Perspective." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 4 (Spring 1988): 37.

"Conclusion to Symposium on the Religious Foundations of Civil Rights Law." Journal of Law and Religion 5 (Winter 1987): 225 (with others).

"Reflections on the Symposium: An Ordered Inquiry into the Relation of Civil Rights Law and Religion." Journal of Law and Religion 5 (Winter 1987): 5.

"Ideals, Beliefs, Attitudes and the Law: Private Law Perspectives on a Public Law Problem." Catholic University Law Review 35 (Fall 1985): 335.

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	William J. Wagner Professor and Director The Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture wagnerw@law.edu Since joining the faculty at the Columbus School of Law in 1984, Professor Wagner has taught constitutional law, jurisprudence, contracts, agency and partnership, law and literature, and law and religion. He is currently the director of the school's Interdisciplinary Program in Law and Religion and has organized conferences on "Death and Dying and Burial: Approaches in Religious Law and Pratice," "Jubilee Year Reflections on Catholic Social Thought: Anticipating the Kingdom," and "A Comparative Law Colloquium: The Value of Free Speech and Its Reasoned Limits in the Constitutional Systems of the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany." In 1995 Professor Wagner received a Fulbright Grant as a visiting research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Prof. Wagner received a bachelor's degree in 1975 from the University of California at Los Angeles, his J.D. from Yale University in 1978, and a master's degree in 1983 from The Catholic University of America. He also earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 2002. BOOKS The Contractual Reallocation of Procreative Resources and Parental Rights: The Natural Endowment Critique. Brookfield, Vt.: Dartmouth Press, 1995. BOOK CHAPTERS "The Right to Accommodation: Should It Be Legislatively Recognized?" In Selective Conscientious Objection, Accommodating Conscience and Security. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989. BOOK REVIEWS "Review of The Inner Experience of Law: A Jurisprudence of Subjectivity by David Granfield." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 4 (Spring 1988): 479. JOURNAL ARTICLES "Christianity and the Civil Law: Secularity, Privacy, and the Status of Objective Moral Norms." St. John's Law Review 71 (Winter 1997): 515. "The Role of Basic Values in the Contemporary Constitutional Hermeneutics of Germany and the United States." Heidelberg Journal of International Law 56, no. 1-2 (1996): 178. "Supremacy and Integrity: Member-State Law as a Limiting Principle in the United States and the European Union." Soundings 79 (Fall/Winter 1996): 349. "In Search of the Market's Moral Limits: Liberalism, Perfectionism, and 'The Bad Man' in Christian Perspective." Journal of Law and Religion 11, no. 2 (1994-95): 535. "The Just and the Holy Are One: The Role of Eschatology in Harold Berman's Vision of Normative Jurisprudence." Emory Law Journal 42 (Fall 1993): 1045. "The Contractual Reallocation of Procreative Resources and Parental Rights: The Natural Endowment Critique." Case Western Reserve Law Review 41 (Fall 1990): 1. "The Ethical and Legal Implications of Hired Maternity." American Journal of Jurisprudence 35 (1990): 187. "The New Reproductive Technologies and the Law: A Roman Catholic Perspective." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 4 (Spring 1988): 37. "Conclusion to Symposium on the Religious Foundations of Civil Rights Law." Journal of Law and Religion 5 (Winter 1987): 225 (with others). "Reflections on the Symposium: An Ordered Inquiry into the Relation of Civil Rights Law and Religion." Journal of Law and Religion 5 (Winter 1987): 5. "Ideals, Beliefs, Attitudes and the Law: Private Law Perspectives on a Public Law Problem." Catholic University Law Review 35 (Fall 1985): 335.
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