On November 13th, Professor William Saunders welcomed Mary Ann Glendon to deliver the Eighth Annual Human Rights Lecture for the M.A. in Human Rights Program. Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law, Emerita, at Harvard University and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. She spoke about “Saving Human Rights in the New World Order.”
On October 8, 2024, the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America hosted its Seventh Annual Human Rights Lecture, featuring Professor O. Carter Snead, the Charles E. Rice Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame and author of What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics. In his lecture titled “Ethics at the Edges of Humanity,” Professor Snead examined the foundational assumptions underlying contemporary bioethical debates.
On October 10, 2023, The Catholic University of America’s Center for Human Rights hosted the Sixth Annual Human Rights Lecture, featuring renowned bioethicist Dr. John Keown of Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics. A distinguished scholar in medical law and ethics, Dr. Keown addressed the complex question: Is there a human right to assisted suicide? Drawing on philosophical, legal, and theological perspectives...
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