Kevin P. Quinn, S.J.

Adjunct Professor of Law

Kevin P. Quinn, S.J., serves as special assistant for legal affairs to the provincial of the Jesuits USA East Province. He was President of The University of Scranton from July 2011 to June 2017.  Prior to Scranton, he held positions as executive director of Santa Clara University’s Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education and professor of law at Georgetown University.

At Georgetown, Father Quinn also served as a senior research fellow/faculty affiliate at the Kennedy Institute for Ethics, and as a consult advisor for the Ethical Consult Service at Georgetown University Medical Center. His legal scholarship is primarily in healthcare ethics and includes book chapters and journal articles on method in Catholic bioethics, public deliberations over healthcare policy, end-of-life decision-making, stem cell research, and justice in healthcare.

Father Quinn entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1973. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1985.  He is a graduate of Fordham University and holds advanced degrees in divinity and moral theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (now the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University). He received his law degree and Ph.D. (in jurisprudence and social policy) from the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing his studies, he clerked for Judge Joseph M. McLaughlin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York. 

At Fordham, Father Quinn will offer a seminar on bioethics and the law.