Presentation & Appearences
Presentations
Dialogue: U.S. and Saudi Arabian Family Law, Freedom House, March 2008 (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
The Objectification of Women, 20 years after Mulieris Dignitatem, Pontifical Council for the Laity, Office for Women, February 2008.(Rome)
Report and Recommendations: State and Federal Laws concerning Treatment of Victims Following Sexual Assault: Plenary Address to the 2007 Conference of the National Catholic Bioethics Center (annual convocation of all of the Roman Catholic bishops of North and South America, Poland and the Philippines). Dallas 2007.
Catholic Social Teaching and the New Reproductive Technologies: Plenary Address to the Pontifical Council for Social Justice and Peace and the Association Internationale Enseignement Chretien Sociale. Vatican City, 2006.
The Family in the Social Order: a plenary address for the Conference: The Legacy of Gaudium et Spes Forty Years Later (Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace). Vatican City 2005.
Loneliness in the Context of Illness and Dying, a presentation for the ethics committee of the St. Vincent’s Hospital (New York), December 2004.
Family in Catholic Social Teaching, a presentation for the annual convention of the National Catholic Association for Youth Ministry (Pittsburgh). December 2004.
Catholic Social Justice and American Jurisprudence: the interplay between Family Law and Property Law, November 2004. St. Michael=s University (VT) Centennial Lecture. Catholic Social Teaching and American Family Law, an address inaugurating the Family Life Center of the Malvern Retreat House (Philadelphia), September, 2004.
Marriage and Family Relationships in the Religious Law of the Abrahamic Faiths, a Rockefeller Foundation Conference, April 19-23, 2004 (Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Lake Como, Italy) (a one week dialogue with leading family law scholars of the Christian, Jewish and Islamic traditions).
Plenary Address on the Role of Catholic Higher Education, for the American Association for Catholic Colleges and Universities, Feb 1, 2004.
Choosing the Child: the Legal and Social Dilemmas, The Doris Clarke Family Lecture on Medical Ethics for the Notre Dame Alumni Association, March 21, 2003 (Notre Dame University) (medical presentation for 200 doctors and lawyers, followed by roundtable consideration of individual legal and ethical dilemmas).
Collaborative Reproduction, a presentation to the University of St. Thomas School of Law, April 8, 2003.
The Role of the Laity in Church Crises, a presentation sponsored by the Center for Catholic Studies of the University of St. Thomas, April 9, 2003.
From 1990 through 1999, lectured on abortion, euthanasia, and feminism on behalf of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops at over 70 colleges, universities and law schools including, among others: Boston College, Brown University, The Catholic University of Rome, Columbia University, Graduate School of International Relations, Cornell Law School, Dartmouth University, George Mason University, Georgetown University schools of law and medicine, Harvard Law School, Notre Dame University School of Law, Princeton University, St. Louis University, Mundelein Seminary (Chicago), Rice University, Texas A & M, the University of Iowa, University of Pennsylvania, the University of South Carolina School of Law, the University of Texas, Washington University (St. Louis) and the Yale University School of Law.