Yale University M. Cathleen Kaveny is an American legal scholar and theologian.
She clerked for Judge John T. Noonan Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked for a large firm in Boston.
She was the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame from 2001 to 2013 where she sat on the advisory board of the Erasmus Institute, created in 1997 to encourage religiously-based intellectual traditions in contemporary scholarship.
[3] She became the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor of Law and Theology at Boston College, in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in 2014.
[1] On March 1, 2012, Kaveny was the guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where she discussed the legal and theological issues surrounding the Catholic Church's position on contraception.