D. Brian Scarnecchia
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Visiting Professor of Law
Email: dscarnecchia@stu.edu
Phone: 305.623.2378
Mail:
St. Thomas University College of Law
Office of the Dean (203)
16401 NW 37th Ave
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
Education:
J.D., University of Akron
M.Div., Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology
B.A., Youngstown State University
Expertise:
International Law
Jurisprudence
Bioethics
D. Brian Scarnecchia
Brian Scarnecchia, M.Div., J.D. is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and visiting Professor of Law at Saint Thomas University, Benjamin L. Crump College of Law. He is also a Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida where he teaches Jurisprudence, Bioethics and Law, and Catholic Social Teaching and Law.
He is the founding president of International Solidarity & Human Rights Institute (ISHRI), a non-governmental organization (NGO) in consultative status with the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS).
Dean Scarnecchia is the author of Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues, and co-author of the Millennium Development Goals in Light of Catholic Social Thought, as well as numerous scholarly and popular articles.
He services as an expert on human rights for the Rome Forum for Catholic Inspired NGOs that works in close association with the Secretary of State for the Holy See. He lectures nationally and internationally on bioethical issues, marriage and family, human ecology, and human rights.
He and his wife, Victoria, have six married children and sixteen grandchildren.
Books:
Brian Scarnecchia, Bioethics, Law and Human Life Issues: A Catholic Perspective on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technology and Death and Dying (NYC, London: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2010).
Brian Scarnecchia and Terrence McKeegan, The Millennium Development Goals in Light of Catholic Social Teaching, (New York, Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam), 2009).
Brian Scarnecchia, Family Matters (magisterial teaching on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, IVF, Cloning, and Euthanasia), in-house publication FUS, August 2004, Imprimatur by Bishop Daniel Conlon, JCD, November 12, 2006.
Brian Scarnecchia, The Light to Choose, (an introduction to moral theology based on The Catechism, Veritatis Splendor, and Summa Theologica) in-house publication FUS, February 2003.
Brian Scarnecchia, With Faith and Reason, (Thomistic anthropology & sources of theology) in-house publication FUS, Imprimatur by Bishop Gilbert I. Sheldon, 6/18/2002.
Book Chapters:
Brian Scarnecchia, “Tort Claims in Cases of Clerical Sexual Misconduct” Chapter 12, pp., 225-251, Clerical Sexual Misconduct: An Interdisciplinary Analysis, Editors Jane Adolphe and Ronald Rychlak, (Providence, Rhode Island: Cluny Media, 2020).
Brian Scarnecchia, “ASEAN’s Declaration of Human Rights (ADHR): Clashing Cultural and Regional Values,” Equality and Non-Discrimination: Catholic Roots, Current Challenges, edited by Jane Adolphe, Robert Fastiggi and Michael Vacca (Eugene, OR, Pickwick Publications, 2019) pp. -163-189.
Brian Scarnecchia, “Property Law,” Chapter 16 in Through a Lens More Clearly: A Catholic Perspective on Law, Editor Ronald Rychlak, (London & New York: Roman & Littlefield, 2015).
Brian Scarnecchia, Response to Robert Fastiggi, “St. Paul, the Natural Law, and the Catholic Tradition,” Chapter 2, Saint Paul, the Natural Law, and Contemporary Legal Theory. (Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2012).
