Elizabeth Kirk, co-director of the Center for Law and the Human Person, participated in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Workshop entitled "Aquinas’ Social Ontology and Natural Law in Perspective: Insights for and from the Social Sciences." The workshop was held from March 7-8, 2024, taking place at Fossanova Abbey, where St. Thomas Aquinas died 750 years ago, and at the Casina Pio IV, a patrician villa in Vatican City and home to the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences. (photograph by Gabriella C. Marino of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences)

Kirk participated in the workshop and presented a paper during the session on Human Nature, Technology, and Social Change. The title of her presentation was "Enfolded in Care: Challenges to Parental Rights in Contemporary Family Law."

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