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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 10, 2018 /Christian Newswire/ -- Professor R.J. Snell has joined the Culture of Life Institute as a Senior Fellow in Natural Law and Ethics. In addition to being a regular contributor, Dr. Snell will lead our 2019 Symposium on Law and Bioethics at the Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, FL. We are honored to welcome Dr. Snell to the team of Culture of Life Fellows.

Dr. Snell is Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ, and Academic Director of the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Life at Princeton University. He is a Contributing Editor of Public Discourse and serves on the editorial board of Method Journal of Lonergan Studies.

Previously, he was a professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He began his academic career at North Park University in Chicago.

He did graduate work in philosophy at Boston College and Marquette University. Research interests include natural law theory, Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ.

He and his family reside in the Princeton area.