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Kathleen Ann Brady
Associate Professor of Law
Office: 205 Garey Hall
Phone: 610-519-5825
Fax: 610-519-5672
Email: brady@law.villanova.edu 
 
Overview
 
Kathleen Brady joins the Law School faculty as an Associate Professor in 2003. She received her B.A. magna cum laude with distinction in the major from Yale College, her J.D. from Yale Law School, and her M.A.R. summa cum laude from Yale Divinity School. While in law school, she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, Professor Brady served for one year as a project associate with the National Academy of Social Insurance and for two years as Assistant to the General Counsel at Yale University. She then clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. After her clerkship, Professor Brady was a Fellow in Law and Religion and Lecturer in Law at Emory University School of Law, before joining the faculty of the University of Richmond Law School as Assistant Professor of Law. Last year, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Villanova.

Professor Brady’s research and teaching interests focus on Law and Religion. Her publications include:

Religious Organizations and Free Exercise: The Surprising Lessons of Smith, 2004 Brigham Young University Law Review (forthcoming).

Catholic Social Thought in the Public Square: Deconstructing the Demand For Public Accessibility, 1 Journal of Catholic Social Thought 203-29 (2004).

Religious Organizations and Mandatory Collective Bargaining under Federal and State Labor Laws: Freedom From and Freedom For, 49 Villanova Law Review 77-167 (2004).

Reflections on the Light: Judge Noonan’s Contributions to the Debate on Religion in the Public Square, 1 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 480-503 (2003).

The Push to Private Religious Expression: Are We Missing Something?, 70 Fordham Law Review 1147-1242 (2002).

Fostering Harmony Among the Justices: How Contemporary Debates in Theology Can Help to Reconcile the Divisions on the Court Regarding Religious Expression by the State, 75 Notre Dame Law Review 433-577 (1999).

Putting Faith Back into Constitutional Scholarship: A Defense of Originalism, 36 Catholic Lawyer 137-201 (1995).

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