A window in the St. Thomas More Chapel of Notre Dame Law School

Law students at Notre Dame find that it is not uncommon for faculty to integrate into their teaching, their scholarship, and their interaction with students such concepts and issues as justice, mercy, perspectives offered by the Catholic Church, and the Catholic intellectual tradition. Such integration varies from faculty member to faculty member and from subject area to subject area. A distinguishing feature is that Notre Dame Law School permits and fosters such a dialogue.

In terms of faculty scholarship in such areas, the following list is representative, though not exhaustive:

• Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory (Oxford University Press 1998); Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth (Catholic University of America Press 1991), Professor John Finnis
• Catholicism, Liberalism and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1995), Professor Gerard Bradley
• Taking Pierce Seriously: The Family, Religious Education, and Harm to Children, 76 Notre Dame Law Review 109 (2000), Professor Richard Garnett
• The Limits of Ordinary Virtue: The Limits of the Criminal Law in Implementing Evangelium Vitae, in Choosing Life: A Dialogue on Evangelium Vitae 132 (K. Wildes and A. Mitchell eds., Georgetown University Press 1997), Professor Cathleen Kaveny
• The Winning Side: Questions on Living the Culture of Life (St. Brendan's Institute 1999); Abortion, Euthanasia and the Need to Build a New "Culture of Life," 12 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 497 (1998), Professor Charles Rice
• Lawyers, Clients and Moral Responsibility, with Robert F. Cochran Jr. (West Publishing Co. 1994).; On Being a Christian and a Lawyer: Law for the Innocent (Brigham Young University Press 1981), Professor Thomas Shaffer
• The Spiritual Values of Wilderness, 36 Environmental Law (2005), Professor John Copeland Nagle