Michael Nader on the "Gospel of Work" November 8, 2005

Catholics@Work is pleased to announced its November 8th, 2005 breakfast meeting will feature Michael J. Nader, esq., an employment law expert and political philosopher, who works for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, CA. Nader draws on his employment law practice in the Silicon Valley, as well as his graduate studies in Catholic Social Teaching, Political Philosophy, Law and Human Rights at the Notre Dame Law School and its Center for Civil and Human Rights to provide a new perspective on how to apply Catholic moral teaching to the modern workplace.

"I have found much inspiration in the teaching of Pope John Paul II that precisely through one's work a person can become 'more human' and 'more Christian'", said Michael J. Nader. "Catholic teaching on the 'Gospel of Work' provides Catholic professionals with the most profound reasons for our work and with the moral energy to undertake our daily responsibilities in a spirit of charity and joy."

While at Notre Dame Law School, Nader also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, which, in collaboration with the U.S. Catholic Bishops, published a volume on Catholic Social Teaching on the issues of work and welfare reform. He also had the unique opportunity to study the contributions of John Paul II to the Theology of Work while on fellowship with the Tertio Millennio Institute in Krakow, Poland.

After law school, Nader served as a judicial clerk for a federal district court judge in Milwaukee, WI, and for an appellate judge with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, IL.