J. Budziszewski is a senior fellow at the Civitas Institute, and a professor of government and philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin, where he also teaches courses in the law school and the religious studies department. He specializes in political philosophy, ethical philosophy, legal philosophy, and the interaction of religion with philosophy. Among his research interests are classical natural law, virtue ethics, conscience and moral self-deception, human happiness or fulfillment, the institution of the family in relation to political and social order, religion in public life, and the problem of toleration.

Budziszewski is the author of nineteen books, including his recent four-part commentary on the works of Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Divine Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021); Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose (Cambridge University Press, 2020); Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Virtue Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2017); and Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014) with its free online partner volume, Companion to the Commentary. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, and M.A. from the University of Florida, and a B.A. from the University of South Florida after spending several years at the University of Chicago.

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