Law, Religion, and Human Rights in David Little's Thought

Abstract

This Essay traces David Little’s pioneering work on religion, human rights, and religious freedom over the past half century, and its distillation in a recent collection of his essay and Festschrift in his honor.

Keywords: David Little; human rights; religious freedom; conscience; free exercise of religion; Roger Williams; John Calvin; Calvinism; malum in se; religious skepticism; natural law; natural rights; self-evidence; harm principle; gratuitous pain; two-tiered rights theory