The Center is happy to announce that, in the past year, three new books have been published in the Center's Ethics and Culture Series with the University of Notre Dame Press. The first, by Saint Louis University Professor Jeffrey Bishop, is entitled The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying…
The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture is happy to host Lorenza Violini, Professor of Law at the University of Milan, as a Visiting Scholar for the next few weeks. As a part of her time here, Professor Violini will present a paper at our 13th Annual Fall Conference, beginning today. Her paper is entitled "Scientific Evidence and Moral Values: Case Law from European Courts."…
Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend will lead a traditional Red Mass on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 5:15 pm in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
The purpose of the Red Mass is to invoke God’s blessings on those responsible for the administration of justice as well as on all public officials. This annual mass is open to all faiths and encouraged for those working in law and politics.…
This year's Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow, Margaret Brinig, is well-known for her groundbreaking research with fellow ND Law professor Nicole Garnett on the negative impact of Catholic K-12 school closures on poor neighborhoods. This week, the Huffington Post ran an article featuring this groundbreaking research…
The first lecture in this year's Catholic Literature series will occur TONIGHT in DeBartolo 155 at 8PM. Professor David Fagerberg of the Notre Dame Theology Department will give a lecture entitled, "Tolkien's Home: The Inklings, Story-Telling, and Romantic Theology."
On Tuesday, July 23, 2012, Center Director and Notre Dame Law professor Carter Snead delivered two lectures as part of the University of Chicago’s Program on Medicine and Religion Faculty Scholars Summer Intensive Program. The two presentations were entitled, “Understanding the …
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.
…As of July 1st, 2012, Notre Dame Law professor O. Carter Snead has taken over as W.P. and H.B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. Professor Snead joined the faculty in 2005. His principal area of research is Public Bioethics – the governance of science, medicine, and biotechnology in the name of ethical goods. His scholarly works have explored issues relating to neuroethics, enhancement, stem cell research, abortion, and end-of-life decision-making. His articles appear in such publications as the New York University Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Vanderbilt Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Quaderni Costituzionali, the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and Political Science Quarterly. Professor Snead teaches Law & Bioethics, Torts, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure. Professor Snead looks forward to building on the foundation laid by Professor David Solomon, who will continue to be a vital presence at Notre Dame as a professor in the Philosophy Department.…
