INTERVIEWS WITH PROMINENT FORUM PARTICIPANTS WHERE DOES LAW COME FROM? <...> Interview with John M. Finnis DOI: 10.17803/2313-5395.2015.2.4.360-362 T he Kutafin University Law Review (KULawR) representatives followed closely the exciting academic discussion that took place on May 28 2015 during the panel ‘Moral Foundations and Natural Law’ within the V St. Petersburg International Legal Forum. <...> The current Russian Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov acted as the moderator. <...> The panelists included a number of renowned academics and practicing lawyers. <...> The first speaker was Mr John M. Finnis, Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Oxford and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. <...> Professor Finnis graciously agreed to answer a few questions that the KULawR had to ask. — Professor Finnis, fi rst of all let me sincerely thank you for your willingness to answer our questions. <...> How do you like the Forum and St. Petersburg, the city where Leon Petrazhitskii who impressed you at the dawn of your studies served as a Professor of Legal Philosophy? — It was a great privilege for me to be able to engage with Russian legal scholars and practitioners, both at the Forum itself and in the St. Petersburg University Law Faculty, and my experience in doing so turned out to be entirely delightful. <...> I appreciated the wide variety of questions that followed in presentations both in the Forum seminar on Natural Law (or the foundations of morality and law), and in the session I held with professors and students at the University Law Faculty the previous day (where I presented essentially the same text). <...> The great city that is the context for these discussions is, of course, immensely impressive and a jewel of our civilization, the civilization into which I was born and in which I began to be educated, in Australia. www.kulawr.ru Volume 2 October 2015 Issue 2(4) Interview with John M. Finnis: ‘Where Does Law Come From?’ 361 — You have been a member of the Pontifi cal Academy for Life since 2001 and you support the moral viewpoint of the Catholic Church on a range of controversial issues that deeply divide the modern society. <...> One of the topics that Academy keeps in the focus of its <...>