Father Kalscheur joined the BC Law faculty in 2003. He received his A.B. in 1985 from Georgetown University, and his J.D. in 1988 from the University of Michigan, where he served on the editorial board of the Michigan Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Kenneth F. Ripple, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and worked as a litigator at Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C.

After entering the Society of Jesus in 1992, Father Kalscheur served as Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Assistant to the Director of the Center for Values and Service at Loyola College in Maryland (1996-98) and as Associate Pastor at St. Raphael the Archangel Church in Raleigh, N.C. (2001-02).

Interdisciplinary dialogue in a setting where faith, intellect, and culture meet is an integral component of Jesuit education, and Father Kalscheur hopes to contribute to that project at BC Law. Jesuit legal education should be an essentially humanistic process of formation for responsible professional service, striving to connect legal inquiry to larger questions of meaning and value, exploring the nature of law as a vocation, and asking how faith and religious values can
be integrated with public and professional life.

Father Kalscheur’s primary teaching and research interests include law and religion, constitutional law, civil procedure, Catholic social thought and the law, and the contributions of Ignatian spirituality to the character of legal education at a Jesuit law school.

EDUCATION

B.A. Georgetown University; J.D. University of Michigan; M.Div., S.T.L Weston Jesuit School of Theology; LL.M., Columbia University.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Work in Progress: "Conscience and Citizenship: The Primacy of Conscience for Catholics in Public Life." Journal of Catholic Social Thought vol. 6 (forthcoming 2009)

Presentations: "Conscience, the Constitution, and the Role of the Catholic Judge,” Jesuit Partnership Lecture, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, in Aug 2006.

"Navigating Law School and Your Legal Career with Integrity: How Ignatian/Jesuit Spirituality Can Help," a Jesuit Lawyer Lecture Series presentation at the University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, California, in April 2005.

Appointments: Appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, in April 2005.

Promotions: Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, March 2008.

Other Activities: Recipient of the 2006 Emil Slizewski Faculty Excellence Award from the BC Law Student Association.

Participated in the Ninth Annual Cardinal Bernadin Conference of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative at Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia, in March 2005.  

Participated in a Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and the Law, sponsored by the Villanova University School of Law and the Villanova Journal of Catholic Social Thought, October 3-4, 2003.

Serving as a Research Fellow in the Catholicism and Civic Renewal Project at the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, D.C; participating in on-going legal seminars with the project.

COURSES

Fall '08: Constitutional Law II; Civil Procedure
Spring '09: Church and State Seminar;  Civil Procedure

PUBLICATIONS

• "Civil Procedure and the Establishment Clause: Exploring the Ministerial Exception, Subject-Matter Jurisdiction, and the Freedom of the Church." William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 17, issue 1 (October 2008): 43-102.
  
• "Conversation in Aid of a 'Conspiracy' for Truth:  A Candid Discussion About Jesuit Law Schools, Justice, and Engaging the Catholic Intellectual Tradition."  Gonzaga Law Review 43, no. 3 (2007/2008):559-576.
  
• "Catholics in Public Life: Judges, Legislators, and Voters." Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 46 (2007): 211-258.
  
• "Ignatian Spirituality and the Life of the Lawyer: Finding God in All Things -- Even in the Ordinary Practice of Law." Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 46 (2007):7-28.
  
• “Moral Limits on Morals Legislation: Lessons for U.S. Constitutional Law from the Declaration on Religious Freedom.” University of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 16 (2006): 1-48.
  
• Review of "Can God & Caesar Coexist? Balancing Religious Freedom and International Law", by Robert F. Drinan. Theological Studies 67 (June 2006): 439-441.
  
• "Christian Scripture and American Scripture: An Instructive Analogy?" Journal of Law and Religion 21 (2005-2006): 101-142.
  
• “A Calling Heeded.” Boston College Law School Magazine 14, no.1 (Fall/Winter, 2005): 25-27.
  
• "American Catholics and the State." America 191: no.3 (whole number 4658) (August 2-9, 2004): 15-18.
  
• "John Paul II, John Courtney Murray, and the Relationship Between Civil Law and Moral Law: A Constructive Proposal for Contemporary American Pluralism." Journal of Catholic Social Thought 1 (Summer 2004): 231-275.
  
• "Law School as a Culture of Conversation: Re-imagining Legal Education as a Process of Conversion to the Demands of Authentic Conversation." Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal 28 (Winter 1996): 333-371.
  
• Review of Lives of Lawyers: Journeys in the Organizations of Practice, by Michael J. Kelly. America 18 (February 1995): 27-29. 
  
• "Dormant Commerce Clause Claims Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983: Protecting the Right to be Free of Protectionist State Action." Michigan Law Review 86 (1987): 157-185.
  
• Review of The Wrong Side of the Tracks: A Revolutionary Rediscovery of the Common Law Tradition of Fairness in the Struggle Against Inequality, by Charles M. Haar and Daniel W. Fessler. Michigan Law Review 85 (1987): 1124-1129.