Senior Research Fellow
Georgetown Law
December 9, 2023
Writing for Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, Senior Research Fellow Amy Uelmen reflects on a September 2023 essay on Jesuit higher education by Cardinal Blase J. Cupich. Uelmen says exterior demands often overwhelm the capacity to ask deeper questions in a university educational setting. Her remarks are in dialogue with David Quigley and Joseph Marina, S.J.
March 16, 2023
February 13, 2023
Amy Uelmen on Healthy Habits for Good Citizenship in Polarized Times
Amelia ("Amy") Uelmen is the director for mission and ministry and a lecturer at Georgetown Law and a senior research fellow at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Her seminar courses help students develop the communication skills they need to foster understanding across deep differences. Her scholarship focuses on how religious values might shed light on tort law, legal ethics and legal education, and how principles of dialogue might inform debates about religion in the public square. Previously Uelmen was the founding director of Fordham University's Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work (2001-2011) and an associate with law firm Arnold & Porter (1996-2000).
Her publications include 5 Steps to Healing Polarization in the Classroom (2018, with Michael Kessler), Five Steps to Positive Political Dialogue (2014), Education's Highest Aim: Teaching and Learning through a Spirituality of Communion (2010, with Michael James and Thomas Masters), and Focolare: Living a Spirituality of Unity in the United States (2011, with Thomas Masters). She is active in the Focolare Movement. In 2016 she completed an S.J.D. with a dissertation on the moral and legal obligations of bystanders to a victim in need of emergency assistance. Her B.A. in American studies and J.D. are from Georgetown, as well as an M.A. in theology from Fordham University.
