About Us
Lonang Institute is a nonprofit organization, the purpose of which is to investigate the laws of nature and nature's God as a basis for social action. We do this by: a) making available digital versions of historic texts dealing with the subject; b) providing a forum for people to contribute to the knowledge base of the subject; and c) providing a context for the investigation of the nature and extent of lonang via the Lonang Commentaries.
Although this effort will initially draw chiefly from Western legal writings and experience, especially the United States, our ultimate goal is to attain a truly universal scope, as one of the essential claims of lonang is that it applies to everyone, everywhere and at all times. Consequently, it is our desire to consider laws and legal experience from the whole of human history as they may help define, or be contrasted with, lonang.
Within the last year we have added online all four volumes of Kent's Commentaries on American Law, as well as the translations of latin, greek, law french and italian phrases throughout Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. With the addition of the complete text of Doctor and Student by Christopher St. Germain, this will wrap up our efforts in building an online library for the time being.
Now our efforts are moving into the phase of deploying the Lonang Commentaries: Legal Foundations, Constitutional Law and Lonang Curriculum. This will of necessity be a long-term project, and initial deployments will be sketchy, often bare, and mostly in outline form. These commentaries are intended to be a work in progress and subject to substantial revision and addition.
The Lonang Commentaries will largely be developed in-house, but we need contributions by people like you to keep it fresh and interactive. Your comments are always welcome, as are your questions. We will do the best we can with our limited resources to reply to questions, and when pertinent, to include those questions and answers into the commentaries themselves. When examples, modern or ancient, come to mind which relate to a particular topic, feel free to bring them to our attention for inclusion and/or comment. Thus, you have the opportunity to directly influence what topics are addressed in the commentaries.
Occasionally, as we progress through the commentaries, there will be hypotheses stated which have not been substantiated by research. At these points, we will solicit your input to fill in the gap of information to either prove or disprove the stated hypothesis. Again, your input will thereby directly impact the content of the commentaries.
And last, but not least, we need continual error correction. If you see an error, point it out to us so we can correct it. It's that simple.
For all of these contributions, we thank you. And to make your contribution, just contact us.
