Meet the Fellows
The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture is proud to introduce its 2012-2013 fellows:
This year's Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow is Margaret Brinig. Margaret “Peg” Brinig is the quintessential interdisciplinarian, melding her expertise with law and social science in empirical studies of families, social capital, and social welfare legislation. Prof. Brinig is best known for her expertise in family law. She sits on the executive council of the International Society of Family Law, and recently published Family, Law, and Community: Supporting the Covenant (University of Chicago Press, 2010), which offers a distinctive study of legal reform from the perspective of family dynamics and social policy. The book examines a range of subjects of current legal interest including cohabitation, custody, grandparent visitation, and domestic violence. She concludes that conventional legal systems and the social programs they engender ignore social capital: the trust and support given to families by a community. The Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellowship is made possible through the generosity of Mary Ann Remick, one of the Center’s most loyal friends and benefactors.
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