A century after, when Protestant Dutch mariners defied Catholic Portugal’s mare clausum by seizing one of its merchant ships off Singapore, their jurist Hugo Grotius argued persuasively, in his 1609 treatise Mare Liberum(“Freedom of the Seas”), that the sea like the air is “so..…

In a 1998 law review article, which she co-wrote as a law student with Notre Dame Law School professor John Garvey (currently president of Catholic University), Barrett herself mused about a possible conflict between a Catholic judge’s allegiance to Catholic teaching..…