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TEACHING BALANCE, AUTONOMY, AND SOLIDARITY IN LAW: CATHLEEN KAVENY, LAW'S VIRTUES: FOSTERING AUTONOMY AND SOLIDARITY IN AMERICAN SOCIETY - Law's Virtues: Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in American Society. By Cathleen Kaveny. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012. Pp. 320. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781589019324.

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Law's Virtues: Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in American Society. By Cathleen Kaveny. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012. Pp. 320. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781589019324.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Kevin P. Lee
Kevin P. Lee*
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Professor of Law, Campbell University
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Cathleen Kavenyjurisprudencelegal philosophylegal theoryCatholic philosophylegal ethicspublic lawlaw and religionabortion rightsgeneticseuthanasiaCatholic voters
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Book Review Symposium: On Pedagogy, Prophecy, and Public Engagement: The Recent Works of Cathleen Kaveny
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , December 2019 , pp. 473 - 485
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2020

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2 In retrospect, Kaveny's fears were not warranted. The commercial sale of DNA test kits is now commonplace, and genetic medicine, while promising, seems to have many years before it delivers.

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4 Scott J. Shapiro, abstract of “The Planning Theory of Law,” Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper no. 600 (2017), https://ssrn.com/abstract=2937990.

5 For a discussion of the amount of data and its rate of growth, see, for example, Jacques Bughin et al., Notes from the AI Frontier: Modeling the Impact of AI on the Global Economy (New York: McKinsey Global Institute, 2018), https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Featured%20Insights/Artificial%20Intelligence/Notes%20from%20the%20frontier%20Modeling%20the%20impact%20of%20AI%20on%20the%20world%20economy/MGI-Notes-from-the-AI-frontier-Modeling-the-impact-of-AI-on-the-world-economy-September-2018.ashx. See also, Bernard Marr, “How Much Data Do We Create Every Day? The Mind-Blowing Stats Everyone Should Read,” Forbes, May 21, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/05/21/how-much-data-do-we-create-every-day-the-mind-blowing-stats-everyone-should-read/#103ce80860ba.

6 For a discussion of this issue, see generally, Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2019).

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13 “Human law is law only by virtue of its accordance with right reason; and thus it is manifest that it flows from the eternal law. And in so far as it deviates from right reason it is called an unjust law; in such case it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence.” Aquinas, Summa theologiae, Part Ia-Ilae, Question xciii, Article 3, Reply 2m.

14 John Paul II, “The Boundary between Original Innocence and Redemption” (September 26, 1979), http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/audiences/1979/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_19790926.html.

15 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribner, 2004), 180.

16 John Paul II, Centesimus annus [Encyclical on political, economic, and social justice issues] (May 1, 1991), § 36, http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus_en.html.

17 Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger in “Communio,” vol. 2, Anthropology and Culture, ed. David L. Schindler and Nicholas J. Healy (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013), 177.

18 John Paul II, “Creation as a Fundamental and Original Gift” (January 2, 1980), http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/audiences/1980/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_19800102.html.