Christopher Wolfe (born 1949) is an American political scientist and Distinguished Research Scholar and former Affiliate Professor of Politics at the

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. He is also Emeritus Professor at

Marquette University Marquette University () is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Established by the Society of Jesus as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, it was founded by John Henni, John Martin ...

. Wolfe is known for his works on American judicial review and natural law public philosophy.

Life

Wolfe received his BA (summa cum laude) from the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...

in 1971. Then he studied

political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

and earned his PhD in 1978. During his doctoral studies, he moved from political philosophy to American political thought and constitutional law. Wolfe taught at Assumption College (1975-1978) and then moved to

. He was President of the American Public Philosophy Institute (now the Dallas Forum on Law, Politics, and Culture) between 1989 and 2021. Wolfe married Anne McGowan Wolfe in 1972 and they have had ten children.

Books

* ''Essays on Faith and Liberal Democracy'', University Press Of America, 1986 * '' The Rise of Modern Judicial Review'', Basic Books, 1986 (revised edition, Rowman and Littlefield, 1994) * ''How to Read the Constitution'', Rowman and Littlefield, 1996 * ''Judicial Activism'', Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 * ''The Family, Civil Society, and the State'', (ed.), Rowman and Littlefield, 1998 * ''Homosexuality and American Public Life'' (ed.), Spence Publishing, 1999 * ''Natural Law and Public Reason'', edited with Robert George, Georgetown University Press, 2000 * ''Same-Sex Matters'' (ed.), Spence Publishing, 2000 * ''Liberalism at the Crossroads'', edited with John Hittinger, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003 * ''That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution'' (ed.), Princeton University Press, 2004 * ''Natural Law Liberalism'', Cambridge University Press, 2006 * ''The Naked Public Square Reconsidered'' (ed.), ISI Books, 2009 * ''Natural Law Today: The Present State of the Perennial Philosophy'', edited with Steven Brust, Lexington Books, 2018 * ''The Concept of Social Justice'' (ed.), St. Augustine's Press, 2019

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* Living people American political scientists 1949 births Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni University of Notre Dame alumni University of Dallas faculty Marquette University faculty American political philosophers 21st-century American philosophers American anti-same-sex-marriage activists Natural law ethicists Assumption College faculty Social philosophers {{US-academic-bio-stub