M. Cathleen Kaveny is an American legal scholar and theologian. She is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor of Law and Theology at

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

. She holds a joint appointment at both the Law School and Department of Theology at Boston College, the first person to hold a faculty appointment in two schools at that university.

Education

Kaveny has an A.B. from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

and an M.A., M.Phil., J.D., and Ph.D. from

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Early career

She clerked for Judge

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of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked for a large firm in

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Academic career

Kaveny has published over forty articles and essays, in journals and books specializing in law, ethics, and medical ethics. She has served on several editor boards, including ''The American Journal of Jurisprudence, The Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of Law and Religion'', and ''The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics''. She was the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology at the

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from 2001 to 2013 where she sat on the advisory board of the Erasmus Institute, created in 1997 to encourage religiously-based intellectual traditions in contemporary scholarship. She became the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor of Law and Theology at

, in

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, in 2014. On March 1, 2012, Kaveny was the guest on ''

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'' where she discussed the legal and theological issues surrounding the Catholic Church's position on

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Bibliography

*''Law's Virtues: Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in American Society'' (2012)Reviews of ''Law’s Virtues'': David S. Caudill, ''J. Catholic Educ.'', ; William D. Dean, ''J. Religion'', , ; John J. Fitzgerald, ''J. Law & Religion'', ; William P. George, ''Horizons'', ; Kevin P. Lee, ''J. Law & Religion'', ; William Rehg, ''Ethics'', , ; Eric E. Schnitger, ''J. Soc. Christian Ethics'', ; Nicholas Townsend, ''Studies in Christian Ethics'', *''A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality'' (2016)Reviews of ''A Culture of Engagement'': Allen Calhoun, ''J. Soc. Christian Ethics'', ; M. Christian Green, ''Horizons'', ; Jonathan Rothchild, ''J. Law & Religion'', *''Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square'' (2016)Reviews of ''Prophecy without Contempt'': Kyle David Bennett, ''Int. J. Public Theol.'', ; Mark Bratton, ''J. Contemp. Religion'', ; Nicholas Buck, ''Symposia''

James F. Childress, ''J. Religious Ethics'', ; John A. Coleman SJ, ''Theol. Studies'', ; Roger Ferlo, ''Anglican Theol. Rev.''

Gerrit van Dyk, ''J. Relig. Theol. Inf'', ; Andrew Forsyth, ''Yale J. Law & Humanities''

Richard A. Hibey, ''Amer. Cathol. Studies''

John Kitch, ''Politics & Religion'', ; Kyle Lambelet, ''J. Soc. Christian Ethics'', , ; Julie Hanlon Rubio, ''Horizons'', ; Mathew D. Scruggs, ''Religious Studies Rev.'', ; Ted A. Smith, ''J. Law & Religion'', *''Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought'' (2018)Reviews of ''Ethics at the Edges of Law'': Matthew Lee Anderson, ''J. Church & State'', ; Michael Bradley, ''Rev. in Relig. & Theol.'', ; John Coughlin, ''Horizons'', ; M. Christian Green, ''J. Law & Religion'', ; John R. Williams, ''Heythrop J.'', * Online version is titled "A defense of casuistry". ——————— ;Notes

References

External links

Faculty page at Boston College
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