Berkley Center

Edward T. Barrett is the Volgenau Director of Strategy and Research at the U.S. Naval Academy's Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership and an ethics professor in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law.

Joseph E. Capizzi is ordinary professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America. He has written, lectured, and published widely on just war theory, bioethics, the history of moral theology, and political liberalism. Dr. Capizzi is the executive director of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America.

Rev. Andrew (Drew) Christiansen, S.J., was Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs from 2013 until his death in April 2022. His areas of research included nuclear disarmament, nonviolence and just peacemaking, Catholic social teaching, and ecumenical public advocacy. He was a frequent consultant to the Holy See and a member of the steering committee of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. He also served on the Atlantic Council's Middle East Task Force and on the Holy See delegation that participated in the negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons during summer 2017.

John P. Langan, S.J. was the Cardinal Bernardin Chair in Catholic Social Thought in the Department of Philosophy, Rose Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and a faculty fellow at the Berkley Center at Georgetown University until his death in March 2020. He also taught at Yale Divinity School, Drew University, and Loyola University Chicago. Langan's research interests included ethics and international affairs, especially applications of just war theory; human rights in theory and practice; capital punishment; Catholic social teaching; the place of religion in liberal political thought; and the ethical theories of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine. He edited Catholic Universities in Church and Society (1993) and A Moral Vision for America (1998). Langan held an A.B., M.A., and Ph.L. from Loyola University, as well as a B.D. from Woodstock College and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Mitt Regan is McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence and co-director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University's Law Center. During the 2015-2016 academic year, he is Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy's Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Center for Military and Security Law at the Australian National University College of Law and an international research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Professional Service Firms. His work focuses on organizational, cultural, and psychological aspects of ethical issues in national security and business settings, as well as business and human rights. His publications include, among others, Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry (2014, with Tanina Rostain) and Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer (2004). Regan holds a B.A. from the University of Houston, M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and J.D. from Georgetown University.