Theology Department Faculty

M. Cathleen Kaveny

Darald and Juliet Libby Professor

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M. Cathleen Kaveny

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall 459N

Telephone: 617-552-4661

Email: cathleen.kaveny@bc.edu

Education

  • A.B., Princeton University
  • M.A., Yale University
  • M.Phil, Yale University
  • J.D., Yale University
  • Ph.D., Yale University

Courses

Professor Kaveny regularly teaches contract law to first-year law students. She also teaches a number of seminars which explore the relationship between theology, philosophy, and law, such as 鈥淔aith, Morality, and Law,鈥� 鈥淏ioethics and the Law,鈥� 鈥淟aw and Religion,鈥� 鈥淢ercy and Justice,鈥� and 鈥淐omplicity.鈥�

Research Interests

Professor Kaveny has published over a hundred articles and essays, in journals and books specializing in law, ethics, and medical ethics. She serves on the masthead of Commonweal as a regular columnist.听Her interests include the relationship of law, religion, and morality in pluralistic societies, health care ethics, rhetoric and ethics, the relationship of mercy and justice, and complicity with wrongdoing.

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Office Hours

by appointment

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Selected Publications

Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Ethics and the American Legal Tradition (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).听 听 听 听

Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Rhetoric in the Public Square (Harvard University Press, 2016).

A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality (Georgetown University Press, Moral Traditions Series, 2016).听

Law鈥檚 Virtues: Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in American Society听(Georgetown University Press, Moral Traditions Series, 2012-winner of a first place award in 鈥淔aithful Citizenship鈥� from the Catholic Press Association).

Articles

鈥淟ove, Justice and Law: The Strange Case of Watts v. Watts,鈥� in Frederick V. Simmons and Brian C. Sorrells, eds.,听Love and Christian Ethics: Engagements with Tradition, Theory, and Society听(forthcoming, Georgetown University Press).

鈥淩esponse to Kevin Flannery,鈥澨齠orthcoming,听American Journal of Jurisprudence.听 听 听听

鈥淟aw and Christian Ethics: Signposts for a Fruitful Conversation鈥� (2015 Presidential Address),听Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, vol. 3, no. 2 (fall/winter 2015): 3鈥�32.

鈥淢ercy for the Remarried: What the Church Can Learn from Civil Law,鈥� in听The Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland Newsletter听(September 2015): 11鈥�18 (reprinted from听Commonweal).

鈥淢ercy, Justice, and Law: Can Legal Concepts Help Foster New Life?,鈥� in George Augustin and Rainer Kirchd枚rfer, eds.,听Familie: Auslaufmodell oder Garant unserer Zukunft听(Herder, 2014), 298鈥�312.

鈥淔rom A Heart of Stone to a Heart of Flesh: Toward an Epideictic Rhetoric of Natural Law,鈥� in John Berkman and William C. Mattison III, eds.,听Searching for a Universal Ethic: Multidisciplinary, Ecumenical, and Interfaith Responses to the Catholic Natural Law Tradition听(Eerdmans, 2014), 229鈥�38.

听鈥淭he Remnants of Theocracy: The Puritans, the Jeremiad, and the Contemporary Culture Wars,鈥澨�Law, Culture and the Humanities听9:1 (2013): 59鈥�70.

鈥淗auerwas and the Law: Is there a Basis for Conversation?,鈥澨�Law & Contemporary Problems, 75:4 (2012): 135鈥�60.

鈥淭he Spirit of Vatican II and Moral Theology:听Evangelium Vitae听as a Case Study,鈥澨�in James Heft and John O鈥橫alley, eds.,听After Vatican II: Trajectories and Hermeneutics听(Eerdmans, 2012), 43鈥�67.

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