Assistant Professor of Law

Zachary.Calo@valpo.edu

Education

Ph.D. Cand. (Religious Studies), University of Virginia (expected 2010)
Ph.D. (History), University of Pennsylvania (2007)
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law (2005)
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University (1997)
B.A., The Johns Hopkins University (1997)

Courses Taught & Research Interests

Business Ethics; Secured Transactions; Commercial and Business Law; Comparative Theological Jurisprudence; American Legal History; Human Rights and International Law; Law and Religion; Social Ethics; Political and Philosophical Theology

Scholarly Works

“The Ethical Aspect of Economic Doctrine”:  The Social Thought of John A. Ryan and the Making of American Catholic Liberalism, 1900-1940 (book manuscript in progress)

Cosmos and Nomos:  Law, Religion, and the Moral Ordering of Modernity (book manuscript in progress)

“Natural Law in American Catholic Social Ethics” (Paper presented at University of Notre Dame, Center for Ethics and Culture, 2007)

Exporting Religious Freedom:  Human Rights and the Globalization of Church-State Law in Church-State Issues in America Today (Praeger Press, 2007)

“True Economic Liberalism: John A. Ryan and the Development of American Catholic Social Thought,” (Paper presented at Villanova University School of Law, 2007)

“The Accomodationist Impulse in American Catholic Social Thought,” (Paper presented at University of St. Thomas Law School, 2006)

“The Indispensable Basis of Democracy”: American Catholicism, the Church-State Debate, and the Soul of American Liberalism, 1900-1920, 91 Virginia Law Review 1037 (2005)

“The Catholic Human Rights Revolution” (Paper presented at Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, 2004)

“John Augustine Ryan,” “The Catholic Worker Movement,” “NCWC,” in Historical Encyclopedia of Christian Politics, 1789-Present (2004)

“Business and the Development of Human Personality” (Paper presented at Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, 2003)

“Rerum Novarum,” “National Catholic War/Welfare Conference,” “Dorothy Day,” “Catholic Worker Movement,” “John A. Ryan,” “Economic Justice for All,” in Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics (2003)

The End of Poverty and the Poverty of Ends: Economic Prosperity and the Cultural Dilemmas of Free Enterprise, in Does Free Enterprise Help the Poor? 20 (Lynn D. Robinson ed., 2002).

Book Review, 32 Fides et Historia 165 (2000) (reviewing Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1998))

From Poor Relief to the Poorhouse: The Response to Poverty in Prince George’s County, Maryland, 1710-1770, 93 Maryland Historical Magazine 393 (1998)

Distinctions & Awards

Virginia Law Review, Editorial Board (2005)
Jay Fellowship, $5000 Grant for Research in International Law (2005)
Civitas Fellow (2000)
Erasmus Institute Summer Seminar (1999)
Pew Younger Scholar (1998)
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (1997-2002)
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, United States Department of Education (1997-2001)

Professional Activities

District of Columbia Bar Association
State Bar of Maryland
Executive Committee, Federalist Society Religious Liberties Practice Group

Previous Professional Experience

Associate Attorney, Buckley Kolar, LLP, Washington, DC (2005-2006)
United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Summer Honors Attorney (2004)
Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC (2001)
Visiting Fellow, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Washington, DC (2001)
Research Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies, Arlington, VA (2001)