100th Anniversary of Pierce v. Society of Sisters

Speakers

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  Elizabeth R. Kirk Director of the Center for Law & the Human Person
  

  Elizabeth R. Kirk

  Director of the Center for Law & the Human Person

  Elizabeth R. Kirk is an Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. Her scholarship focuses on law and the family, including issues such as parental rights, reproductive technologies, abortion jurisprudence, child welfare, and adoption. Her work has been published by the Institute for Family Studies, Humanum, Public Discourse, First Things, the Texas Review of Law & Politics, and the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy (forthcoming).

  From 2018 to 2020, she served as Director and Kowalski Chair of Catholic Thought at the Institute for Faith and Culture at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas.

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  Marc DeGirolami St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law
  

  Marc DeGirolami

  St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law

  Marc O. DeGirolami is the inaugural St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person. His publications include The Tragedy of Religious Freedom (Harvard University Press) and articles in the Yale Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Legal Theory, and the Boston College Law Review, among others. Before joining the Columbus School of Law in 2024, he was the Cary Fields Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Mattone Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s Law School. He has also been a Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Department of Politics, as well as a Visiting Professor at Notre Dame Law School and The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. His professional experience includes service as an Assistant District Attorney in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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  Justice Clint Bolick Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
  

  Justice Clint Bolick

  Justice, Arizona Supreme Court

  Justice Clint Bolick was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2016 and in 2018 was retained by the voters for a six-year term. Prior to joining the Court, Justice Bolick litigated constitutional cases in state and federal courts from coast to coast, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Among other positions, he served as Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute and as Co-founder and Vice President for Litigation at the Institute for Justice. He has litigated in support of school choice, private property rights, freedom of speech, and federalism, and against racial classifications and government subsidies. Justice Bolick received his J.D. from the University of California at Davis, and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Drew University. Justice Bolick has written a dozen books and hundreds of articles. Among his most recent books are Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution, co-authored with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush; and David’s Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary.

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  Nicole Stelle Garnett Associate Dean for External Engagement John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law
  

  Nicole Stelle Garnett

  Associate Dean for External Engagement John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law

  Nicole Stelle Garnett is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, where she also serves as the Associate Dean for External Engagement and directs the Notre Dame Education Law Project. Her teaching and research focus on education law and policy, religious liberty, and topics related to property law (especially land use and urban development policies). In addition to dozens of articles on these subjects, she is the author of Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools’ Importance in Urban America (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration of Urban America (Yale University Press, 2009).

  Garnett received her B.A. with distinction in Political Science from Stanford University and her J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining the law school faculty in 1999, she worked for two years as a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C., where she helped to defend the constitutionality of the nation’s first private-school-choice programs.

  At Notre Dame, Garnett is a faculty fellow in the Institute for Educational Initiatives, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, and deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture. She also is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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  Sr. John Mary Fleming, O.P. Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia Congregation
  

  Sr. John Mary Fleming, O.P.

  Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia Congregation

  Sister John Mary Fleming, O.P., is a Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia Congregation in Nashville, TN. She has served two terms as Director of Education for St. Cecilia Congregation. From 2012-2018 she held the position of Executive Director for the Secretariat of Catholic Education, at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). In that role, Sister was responsible for supporting and assisting the bishops in the development, management, and communication of priorities, plans and policies for all levels of Catholic education in the United States. Sister John Mary is presently serving as administrator for a parish elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.

  She has served as a teacher in elementary and second schools and as an administrator for the Congregation at the college, secondary, and elementary levels. She has served on numerous boards of trustees at all levels. Sister assisted and managed several school building and renovation projects including the 1860 St. Cecilia Congregation Motherhouse.

  Sister has a licentiate in Canon Law from the Catholic University of America. She earned an M.A. Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville. Sister has an M.S. in Educational Administration and a B.S. in Education.

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  Dr. Keri D. Ingraham Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute Director, American Center for Transforming Education Senior Fellow, Independent Women’s Forum
  

  Dr. Keri D. Ingraham

  Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute Director, American Center for Transforming Education Senior Fellow, Independent Women’s Forum

  Dr. Keri D. Ingraham is a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute and Director of the Institute’s American Center for Transforming Education. She is also a Senior Fellow at Independent Women’s Forum.

  Dr. Ingraham has been interviewed multiple times on Fox News and other national television outlets and is a regularly requested podcast guest. Her articles have been published by The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Federalist, The Washington Times, The Epoch Times, Washington Examiner, The Daily Wire, Real Clear Education, The Daily Signal, National Review, The American Spectator, Daily Caller, The Seattle Times, Puget Sound Business Journal, and a host of other media outlets.

  Prior to joining Discovery Institute, she spent nearly two decades leading within the field of education as a national consultant, requested conference speaker, head of school, virtual and hybrid academy director, administrator, classroom teacher, and athletic coach.