Elizabeth R. Kirk is a Senior Fellow at the Gibbons Institute, the Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person, and Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.

Professor Kirk’s scholarship focuses on law and the family, including issues such as parental rights, reproductive technologies, abortion jurisprudence, and child welfare and adoption. She also explores the relationship, both complementary and contrasting, between the Catholic intellectual tradition and law.

Professor Kirk previously served as a law clerk for Judge Daniel A. Manion on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She holds an undergraduate degree cum laude in English Literature from the University of Missouri, a law degree magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and has done graduate studies in theology.