Richard S. Myers, Esq., Ave Maria School of Law.

Richard S. Myers is Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kenyon College. He earned his law degree at Notre Dame, where he won the law school's highest academic prize. He clerked for Judge John F. Kilkenny of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then was an associate at the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C., focusing on antitrust law and appellate litigation. He previously 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 a co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, which was published in 2007 by Scarecrow Press. He has also published on such topics as church-state relations, legal aspects of life issues, civil unions and domestic partnerships, school choice, the commerce clause, and other constitutional law topics in the law reviews of Catholic University of America, Ave Maria University, Case Western Reserve University, Notre Dame University, Valparaiso University, Creighton University, Washington and Lee University, and others and such other journals as Life and Learning and The Catholic Social Science Review. Besides being Executive Secretary of the SCSS, Professor Myers is the President of University Faculty For Life. He is married to Mollie Murphy who is also a Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law and they have six children.