O. Carter Snead

Carter Snead is a visiting fellow at the Civitas Institute and the Charles E. Rice Professor of Law and Concurrent Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is one of the world’s leading experts on public bioethics. His research explores issues relating to neuroethics, enhancement, human embryo research, assisted reproduction, abortion, and end-of-life decision-making.

From 2012 to 2024, he served as director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics (Harvard University Press, 2020), which was named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the “Ten Best Books of 2020.” Snead received a J.D. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.