Join us at the 2024 Devlin Lecture, "East of Eden: A Critique of Nostalgia", presented by Professor M. Cathleen Kaveny, The Darald and Juliet Libby Millennium Professor at Boston College, in both the Theology Department and the Law School.

21st November, 7:00pm, Renehan Hall

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Professor Kaveny has published over a hundred articles and essays, in journals and books specializing in law, ethics, and medical ethics. She also is a columnist for Commonweal magazine writes for other popular periodicals and was interviewed in 2012 on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." A past president of the Society of Christian Ethics, her research and teaching 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. She has authored four books, including Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought (Oxford University Press, 2018). From 1995 to 2014, she was the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where Tobias Winright, now Professor of Moral Theology, SPPU, was her postgraduate research assistant.