Fr. William R. Dailey, C.S.C.

Rev. William R. Dailey, C.S.C., is the Center for Ethics and Culture's Thomas More Fellow and the Director of the Newman Centre for Faith and Reason in Dublin. He earned his B.A. in philosophy summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame, where his thesis on Charles Sanders Pierce was honored as the Most Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis. After teaching philosophy and working in administration at the University of Portland, Father Dailey attended Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law in Washington, D.C., with Wiley Rein LLP. In 2009, he returned to Columbia Law School as a visiting scholar. He was appointed the first Director of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason in 2016. Father Dailey’s teaching and scholarly interests are in the areas of professional responsibility, jurisprudence, evidence, and immigration.