The Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State & Society is grateful to Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law, emerita, at Harvard Law School and former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, for delivering the inaugural Rice-Hasson Distinguished Lecture on November 17, 2021.
Her topic was “Human Ecology and the Lawyer’s Vocation.” She drew on writings of Pope Francis and his two predecessors to develop the intriguing proposal that our cultural, institutional, and human “ecology” requires care, attention, and stewardship, no less than our natural/environmental one.
The Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society launched the lecture series to serve as the program’s flagship annual event and celebration. The series is named to honor the late Notre Dame Law Professor Charles E. Rice as well as Kevin J. “Seamus” Hasson and his wife, Mary Rice Hasson. The Rice-Hasson Lecture will bring a distinguished scholar to Notre Dame’s campus each year to deliver a public lecture that will engage the University and Law School communities.
Ambassador Glendon’s lecture is available to view below.