Professor Cathleen focuses on the relationship of law, religion, morality. A member of the Massachusetts Bar since 1993, Professor Kaveny clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan Jr. 美国的.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as an associate at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray in its health law group. Her books include 法律’s Virtues: Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in 美国n Society (Georgetown University Press, 2012); A Culture of Engagement: 法律, Religion, Morality (Georgetown University Press, 2016); Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square (Harvard University Press, 2016); and Ethics at the Edges of 法律: Christian Moralists and 美国n Legal Thought (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Professor Kaveny has served on a number of editorial boards including The 美国n Journal of Jurisprudence, The Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of 法律 and Religion, The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. She currently serves on the masthead of Commonweal as a regular columnist, is the chair of the board of trustees of the Journal of Religious Ethics. She has also  been the president of the Society of Christian Ethics.