D. Brian Scarnecchia, Esq., Franciscan University of Steubenville

D. Brian Scarnecchia is Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Human Life Studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville, former Chairman of the University’s Department of Humanities and Catholic Social Thought, visiting professor (on leave) at Ave Maria School of Law, and a lawyer admitted to practice law in Ohio. He was formerly in fulltime law practice, and now maintains a limited practice in light of his full-time faculty responsibilities. His law degree is from the University of Akron, he holds an M.Div. from the Dominican School of Theology, and worked toward an S.T.D. degree at the University of Dayton. He has held the Human Life International Chair in honor of Father Paul Marx at Franciscan University and is also Director of the Human Life Studies Academic Minor Program there. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Catholics United for the Faith. He has lectured nationally and internationally on human life and human rights issues.

He has served as Society of Catholic Social Scientists Treasurer since 1998. He previously served as SCSS Membership Chairman and President of the SCSS Tri-State Chapter (Steubenville-Pittsburgh-Wheeling). He also acts as legal co-counsel for the SCSS and directs its Non-Governmental Organization activities at the United Nations. He is the founding president of the International Solidarity and Human Rights Institute, a Catholic human rights organization, and has authored three books on moral theology and bioethics: With Faith and Reason (2002), The Right to Choose (2003), and Family Matters: Bioethics, Law and Catholic Social Teaching (2009), and a monograph with Terrence McKeegan, The Millennium Development Goals in Light of Catholic Social Teaching. International Organizations Research Group White Paper Number 10. New York: Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (2009).