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| Mary Catherine Hodes |
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Since completing a clerkship with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Mary Catherine has concentrated her practice in federal complex litigation. She currently specializes in writing and briefing appellate issues related to class actions and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
Before law school, Mary Catherine studied philosophy and theology, including studying the social teaching of the Catholic Church in France and Poland. She recently co-authored an article in the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy on the relationship between moral law and civil law in the social teaching of Pope John Paul II.
Education: St. Louis University, B.A. 1999; summa cum laude, degrees in Philosophy, Theology, and French; Phi Beta Kappa. Harvard Law School, J.D., Harvard Law Review, Editor; Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Executive Editor; 2003. Law Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals, Honorable Joe A. Cabranes, Second Circuit of NY, 2003 – 2004.
Author: The Supreme Court 2001 Term: Federalism – State Sovereign Immunity in Federal Administrative Agency: Federal Maritime Commission v. South Carolina State Ports Authority, 122 S.Ct. 1864 (2002), 116 Harv. L. Rev. 210 (2002).
John Paul II on the Relationship Between Civil Law and the Moral Law: Understanding Evangelium Vitae in Light of the Principle of Subsidiarity and the Moral Grammar of John Paul II, with Gregory R. Beabout, 21 N.D. J. L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 71 (2007).
Admitted: Missouri (2004); Illinois (2005).
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