Prof. Helen M. Alvaré

Helen M. Alvaré is a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, where she specializes in Family Law, Law and Religion, and Property Law.

In addition to being a member of Aleteia’s Board of Experts as an advisor on abortion and contraception, she serves as faculty advisor to the law school’s Civil Rights Law Journal, chair of the Task Force on Conscience Protection of the Witherspoon Institute (Princeton, NJ), president of the Chiaroscuro Institute (New York, NY), chair of the Catholic Women’s Forum, a consultor for the Pontifical Council of the Laity (Vatican City), an advisor to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (Washington, D.C.), and an ABC news consultant. She cooperates with the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations as a speaker and a delegate to various United Nations conferences concerning women and the family.