Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School
Gerard V. Bradley is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches Legal Ethics and Constitutional Law. At Notre Dame he directs (with John Finnis) the Natural Law Institute and co-edits The American Journal of Jurisprudence, an international forum for legal philosophy. Bradley has been a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, in Princeton, New Jersey. He served for many years as President of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.
Bradley received his B.A and J.D. degrees from Cornell University, graduating Summa cum laude from the law school in 1980. After serving in the Trial Division of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office he joined the law faculty at the University of Illinois. He moved to Notre Dame in 1992. Bradley has published over one hundred scholarly articles and reviews. His most recent books are an edited collection of essays titled, Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century (published by Cambridge University Press in 2012), Essays on Law, Religion, and Morality and Unquiet Americans: U.S. Catholics and the Common Good (both to be published in 2014.) He is currently working on a book about regulating obscenity in the Internet Age.
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Supreme Court Decides Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission: State May Not Discriminate Among Faiths in Determining What Activity Counts as Religious
Last week, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court decided Catholic...
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The Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission
On March 31, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in its first religious freedom case...
New York Court of Appeals Rules on Contraception Case
Gerard V. Bradley
Seeking to advance women’s health and their overall treatment on terms equal to men, the...