#635 Author, Lawyer and Ethicist Douglas Charles Hodgson

Please join Dave the Mystic on Monday, July 10, 2023 at 8pm MDT with guest Douglas Hodgson.  This show was prerecorded on July 5, 2023.  Douglas Hodgson is a former Dean and Professor of Law, currently residing in Perth, Western Australia. He undertook postgraduate legal study at the University of London before embarking on a 35-year career in higher education in Canada, Australia and New Zealand as a teacher, researcher, scholar, human rights advocate and university administrator.

His areas of expertise include Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Civil Law, Causation Law and Human Rights Law. He has published extensively in the field of children's human rights. Professor Hodgson has authored and published 30 peer-reviewed Law journal articles and four books.

He is a regular attender and alumnist of the Oxford Round Table where he delivered addresses on the concept of an international rule of law, the protection of children's international human rights and the challenges of religious fundamentalism in the public school system from a human rights perspective. As a complement to his work on religious discrimination issues in the educational field, he developed a passion to study and compare the scriptures of the world's faiths and distil therefrom common and unifying spiritual principles upon which these great and diverse religions are based.

We will be discussing his new book, Transcendental Spirituality, Wisdom and Virtue:  The Divine Virtues and Treasures of the Heart

Thanks for listening!

Blessings

Dave the Mystic