D. Brian Scarnecchia, JD
D. Brian Scarnecchia is the founding President of the International Solidarity & Human Rights Institute (ISHRI). He is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law where he teaches Bioethics and Propery Law. He is the Chairman of the Department of Humanities and Catholic Social Thought and the Director of the Legal Studies and the Human Life Studies programs at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is a member of the expert committee of the Rome Forum of Catholic NGOs.
Attorney Scarnecchia lectures nationally and internationally on the relation of law, culture, religion, human rights and development. He serves on the board of directors and is legal counsel for the Society of Catholic Social Scientists (SCSS) and is their main NGO representative to the United Nations. He has authored articles and books on law, moral theology and bioethics including With Faith and Reason (2002), The Light to Choose (2003), and Family Matters: Bioethics, Law and Catholic Social Teaching (forthcoming Scarecrow Press, 2009).
He is a practicing attorney in the State of Ohio and has served as an Assistant County Prosecutor. He and his wife, Victoria, live on a farm in Bloomingdale, Ohio with their six children.
