Law, Morality and the Culture Wars

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Law, Morality and the Culture Wars
Cathleen Kaveny
Professor of Law and Theology
University of Notre Dame
Co-sponsored by the Catholic Community at Stanford through the Commonweal Speakers Program
Made possible by a generous grant from James H. Duffy.
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Cathleen Kaveny serves as the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. As a columnist for Commonweal Magazine and as a scholar, Kaveny explores the relationship between morality and law, reconciling and analyzing the role religion and ethics in current events. Kaveny takes on controversial issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, confronting issues ranging from torture and medical conscience clauses to Catholic academic freedom and electoral politics.  A decorated scholar, Kaveny has published over forty articles and essays, served as a clerk under the Honorable John T. Noonan Jr., and earned her undergraduate and multiple graduate degrees in philosophy, theology and law from Princeton and Yale, respectively.