Melissa Moschella is Professor of the Practice in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining the faculty at Notre Dame, she was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America. Her research and teaching focus on natural law, biomedical ethics, and the family, and her work addresses a variety of contemporary issues, including parental rights, religious freedom, marriage, gender, reproductive technologies, and end-of-life issues. She is the author of To Whom Do Children Belong? Parental Rights, Civic Education and Children’s Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing (University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming Spring 2025). She has also published numerous articles in scholarly journals as well as popular media outlets, including Bioethics, The Journal of Medical Ethics, Notre Dame Law Review, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, earned a Licentiate in Philosophy summa cum laude from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, and received her Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Princeton University.
