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"Requiem for Criminal Justice" with Gerry Bradley
Date & Time
Wed, Nov 11, 2026 • 2:00 pm
Organization
JWI & CRCD
Venue
Webinar
Since the death of George Floyd in 2020, there has been a wave of bail reform efforts and prosecutorial policies aimed at limiting incarceration. Indeed, many prosecutors have publicly stated that they don't believe in punishment as a just practice and strive to abandon it altogether. Amid theories of restoration, rehabilitation, and deterrence, JWI Co-Director Prof. Gerry Bradley argues for a return to a classical understanding of punishment and retribution as the only true justification for this system.
Meet Gerry Bradley
Gerard V. Bradley is Co-Director of the James Wilson Institute. He served as professor of law at the University of Notre Dame from 1992 to 2024, where he taught Legal Ethics and Constitutional Law. At Notre Dame he directed (with John Finnis) the Natural Law Institute and co-edited The American Journal of Jurisprudence, an international forum for legal philosophy. He served as president of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars for many years and has been a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute.
Bradley received his B.A and J.D. degrees from Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude from the law school in 1980. Before teaching at Notre Dame, he served in the Trial Division of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and taught at the University of Chicago College of Law. In 2009, he was a Visiting Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
Bradley has published over one hundred and fifty scholarly articles and reviews, and is the author and editor of twelve books, such as Catholic School Teaching: A Collection of Scholarly Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Unquiet Americans: U.S. Catholics, Moral Truth, and the Preservation of our Civil Liberties (St. Augustine’s Press, 2019).
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