University Faculty for LifeRichard S. Myers, the Vice-President of UFL, is Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law, where he teaches Antitrust, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, and Religious Freedom. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kenyon College and earned his law degree at Notre Dame, where he won the law school's highest academic prize. He began his legal career by clerking for Judge John F. Kilkenny of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Myers also worked for Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C. He taught at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law before joining the Ave Maria faculty. He is a co-editor of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition: Contemporary Perspectives (Catholic University of American Press, 2004) and a co-editor of Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (Scarecrow Press, 2007). He has also published extensively on constitutional law in law reviews and also testified before Congressional and state legislative hearings on life issues.
Married to Mollie Murphy, who is also on the faculty at Ave Maria School of Law, they are the proud parents of six children - Michael, Patrick, Clare, Kathleen, Matthew, and Andrew. http://www.avemarialaw.edu/index.cfm?event=faculty.bio&pid=11705E7D4E0111010366
Here is a link to a very good essay by Charles Camosy reflecting on the lessons of the Charlie Gard case. Here is Camosy’s assessment– “Those who held power over Charlie decided that his life was not worth living. They reached this judgment on the basis of his expected mental disability. They denied him treatment, […]
Here is a LifeNews.com story about a recent decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Here is a bit from the article: “In a horrible defeat for pro-life organizations, a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court ruled that a secular pregnancy center must be forced to comply with the Obamacare mandate […]
That is the position of Josh Craddock in a recent essay in Public Discourse. His Public Discourse essay is a summary of the paper he previously published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Here is a summary of his argument: “Given the original public meaning of the term “person,” the contemporaneous anti-abortion […]
Here is a report from Alex Schadenberg on some good news from New Zealand.
Here is a link to Stefano Gennarini’s analysis of the threat posed by a recent draft document of the UN Human Rights Committee. Gennarini’s analysis is entitled “UN Committee Excludes Unborn From Right to Life, Opens Door to Euthanasia.”
Here is a very good essay by Margaret Somerville entitled “The euthanasia slippery slope: a failure of memory and imagination.”
Here is a story about the death of Charlie Gard. R.I.P.
Here is a link to a LifeNews story about the decision of Charlie Gard’s parents to end their fight to save his life.
Here is a link to Richard Doerflinger’s analysis.
Here are a couple of news items about developments in the Charlie Gard case. Here is a story discussing a recent medical exam that was conducted in preparation for a new hearing in the case. Here is a story discussing Charlie’s parents’ objection that the lawyer appointed to represent Charlie is a supporter of assisted suicide. Here is a very good […]