Richard A. McCormick, S. J. Endowed Chair of Catholic Moral Theology at Loyola University Chicago

the President of Societas Ethica, European Society for Research in Ethics, currently serving on its Board. In Frankfurt, she was a Fellow at the Frankfurt School Institute of Social Research and a member of the Cornelia Goethe Institute for Women Studies. She has published multiple articles and co-edited several books in the field of bioethics and social ethics. She has written four monographs: Towards a Critical Political Ethics: The Renewal of Catholic Social Ethics, Würzburg, Schwabe Verlag (2020); Hauptsache gesund? München, Kösel (2011); Ethik der genetischen Frühdiagnostik, Paderborn, mentis (2002); Moralische Identität. Literarische Lebensgeschichten als Medium ethischer Reflexion (1999). She is currently working on a book on Recognition and Responsibility.

For more information on affiliated organizations, please visit their respective pages at Richard A. McCormick, S.J., Chair of Catholic Moral Theology, Concilium: International Journal for Theology, and Societas Ethica.


Dr. Haker is available for lectures on various topics in Christian Social Ethics, including (but not limited to) her primary research areas.

Please write to hhaker@luc.edu with enquiries.


Hille Haker holds the Richard A. McCormick, S.J. Endowed Chair of Catholic Moral Theology at Loyola University Chicago and has been awarded the honorary title Doctor theologiae honoris causa by Uppsala University. She has taught at Frankfurt University (2005 to 2009), and Harvard University (2003 to 2005) and holds a Ph.D (1998) and Habilitation (2002) in Christian Theological Ethics from the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Haker has served on several Bioethics Committees, including the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission (2005-2015). From 2015-2018 she was