Theology Department Faculty
M. Cathleen Kaveny
Darald and Juliet Libby Professor
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 “Faith, Morality, and Law,” “Bioethics and the Law,” “Law and Religion,” “Mercy and Justice,” and “Complicity.”
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. 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.
Office Hours
by appointment
Articles
“Love, Justice and Law: The Strange Case of Watts v. Watts,” in Frederick V. Simmons and Brian C. Sorrells, eds., Love and Christian Ethics: Engagements with Tradition, Theory, and Society (forthcoming, Georgetown University Press).
“Response to Kevin Flannery,” forthcoming, American Journal of Jurisprudence.
“Law and Christian Ethics: Signposts for a Fruitful Conversation” (2015 Presidential Address), Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, vol. 3, no. 2 (fall/winter 2015): 3–32.
“Mercy for the Remarried: What the Church Can Learn from Civil Law,” in The Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland Newsletter (September 2015): 11–18 (reprinted from Commonweal).
“Mercy, Justice, and Law: Can Legal Concepts Help Foster New Life?,” in George Augustin and Rainer Kirchdörfer, eds., Familie: Auslaufmodell oder Garant unserer Zukunft (Herder, 2014), 298–312.
“From A Heart of Stone to a Heart of Flesh: Toward an Epideictic Rhetoric of Natural Law,” in John Berkman and William C. Mattison III, eds., Searching for a Universal Ethic: Multidisciplinary, Ecumenical, and Interfaith Responses to the Catholic Natural Law Tradition (Eerdmans, 2014), 229–38.
“The Remnants of Theocracy: The Puritans, the Jeremiad, and the Contemporary Culture Wars,” Law, Culture and the Humanities 9:1 (2013): 59–70.
“Hauerwas and the Law: Is there a Basis for Conversation?,” Law & Contemporary Problems, 75:4 (2012): 135–60.
“The Spirit of Vatican II and Moral Theology: Evangelium Vitae as a Case Study,” in James Heft and John O’Malley, eds., After Vatican II: Trajectories and Hermeneutics (Eerdmans, 2012), 43–67.