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Vincent D. Rougeau

Associate Professor of Law

Office Number: 215 Law School
Telephone: 574.631.8610
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: Vincent.D.Rougeau.1@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Gloria Krull

Vincent D. Rougeau joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty as a visiting associate professor of law in 1997 and became a tenured associate professor in 1998, after teaching as both assistant and associate professor of law at Loyola University Chicago (1991-97). He became Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1999. He received his A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1985 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1988, where he was articles editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.

He belongs to the Maryland Bar, the District of Columbia Bar Association and the ABA. Before entering the teaching profession, he practiced as an associate at Morrison & Foerster in Washington, D.C. (1988-91).

Professor Rougeau’s current teaching interests focus on contract and real estate law. He also teaches in the law and religion area, specializing in Catholic social thought. His most recent research has explored the philosophical and theological underpinnings of Catholic social teaching as they relate to various areas of American law. In particular, he has explored how key assumptions underlying Catholic thinking diverge from many of the ideas animating American law and policy in areas like poverty relief, immigration, and redress for racial discrimination. He has recently placed a book with Oxford University Press entitled Christians in the American Empire: Faith and Citizenship in the New World Order, which examines these issues in more detail.

Professor Rougeau currently serves as Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, and at the Contextual Theology Centre in London. He has served as a fellow at the Erasmus Institute at Notre Dame, and as a fellow, faculty mentor, and board member of the Collegium Summer Institute on Faith and Intellectual Life. He is the director of the Center for Law and Government at Notre Dame Law School and serves as faculty advisor for the Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy.

LAW60105, Contracts

LAW70111, Real Estate Transactions

LAW70835, Catholic Social Thought

LAW75741, Journal of Law, Ethics, and Pub. Policy

London: Terrorism, Immigration & Multiculturalism

Faculty Expertise Areas

  • Banking law
  • Contracts
  • Real estate law/development

Working Papers

EMPIRE OF PERSONAL DESIRE: AMERICAN LAW AND THE DESTRUCTION OF COMMUNAL FORMS OF MEANING

CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT AND THE NEW URBANISM: A SHARED VISION TO CONFRONT THE PROBLEM OF URBAN SPRAWL?

JUSTICE, COMMUNITY AND SOLIDARITY: RETHINKING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION THROUGH THE LENS OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT

Articles

Pilgrim Law: Overcoming False Consciousness through the Witness of London’s Economic Migrants, 22 Journal of Law and Religion 489-501 (2007).

A CRISIS OF CARING: A CATHOLIC CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN WELFARE REFORM , 27 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 100 (2003).

The Community Reinvestment Act: Questionable Premises and Perverse Incentives, 18 The Annual Review of Banking Law 163 (1999).

Rediscovering Usury: An Argument for Legal Controls on Credit Card Interest Rates, 67 University of Colorado Law Review 1 (1996).

Lending Discrimination: Economic Theory, Econometric Evidence and the Community Reinvestment Act, 85 Georgetown Law Journal 237 (1996).

Society’s Ill-Fated Trade-Off, The New York Times (Viewpoint), 3 September 1995, sec. 3, p. 11.