Melissa Moschella is Professor of the Practice in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life. Her work spans the fields of ethics, political philosophy, and law, and her areas of special expertise include natural law theory, biomedical ethics, and the family (especially parental rights). 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 (Notre Dame Press, 2025). Professor Moschella has also published numerous articles in scholarly journals as well as popular media outlets, including Notre Dame Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, The American Journal of Jurisprudence, The Journal of Law and Religion, Bioethics, The American Journal of Bioethics, The Journal of Medical Ethics, The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. 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.
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