Saders for Life is excited to welcome Helen Alvare to campus this spring. She will be speaking as part of the McFarland Ceter for Religion, Ethics, and Culutre Speaker Series. Helen Alvaré is a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, where she teaches Family Law, Law and Religion, and Property Law.  She publishes on matters concerning marriage, parenting, non-marital households, abortion and the First Amendment religion clauses.  She is faculty advisor to the law school’s Civil Rights Law Journal, chair of the Task Force on Conscience Protection of the Witherspoon Institute (Princeton, New Jersey), president of the Chiaroscuro Institute (New York, New York), chair of the Catholic Women’s Forum, a consultor for the Pontifical Council of the Laity (Vatican City), an advisor to the U.S.Conference of Catholic Bishops (Washington, D.C.), and an ABC news consultant. Professor Alvaré received her law degree from Cornell University School of Law and her master’s degree in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America.