|
Professor Brennan joined the Villanova faculty in 2004 as the first John F. Scarpa Chair in Catholic Legal Studies, following eight years on the faculty of the Arizona State University College of Law, where for a time he served as Vice Dean. Professor Brennan is a graduate of Yale College, the University of Toronto, and Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley, where he was Order of the Coif. After law school, Professor Brennan was clerk to the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and later was
associated with the law firms O'Melveny & Myers in San Francisco and Mayer, Brown, and Platt in Washington, D.C. Professor Brennan is the co-author of
By Nature Equal: The Anatomy of a Western Insight (Princeton University Press 1999) and the author of more than a dozen articles, essays, and book chapters that study a range of questions in jurisprudence, law and religion, Catholic social thought, and public law (including federal jurisdiction, administrative law, and criminal law). During the Fall 2004 semester Professor Brennan holds the Chair for the Culture of Law at the John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., and he is currently the co-director (with Professor John Coons of Boalt Hall) of a study on "The Vocation of the Child" for the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion at Emory University. Professor Brennan has
served as visiting professor in the Boston College Law School, and he has been a research fellow at the Robbins Collection of Canon and Civil Law, U.C. Berkeley.
Back to the Top
|
