Kevin J. “Seamus” Hasson

Kevin J. “Seamus” Hasson is Founder and President of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a non-partisan, interfaith public-interest law firm that protects the free expression of all religious traditions. Since 1994, Hasson and the Becket Fund have successfully represented clients from nearly every faith, literally from Anglicans to Zoroastrians. Along the way, the Becket Fund has won kudos from thinkers from Pope John Paul II to Elie Wiesel.

Hasson enjoys broad credibility in the national media. He has been widely quoted, appearing everywhere from Newsweek and US News and World Report to The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on broadcast news programs from The Today Show to NPR’s Talk of the Nation to Al-Jazeera.

Hasson also lectures and debates frequently, in venues ranging from Oxford to the Vatican, from Harvard to BYU. He is the author of The Right to be Wrong: Ending the Culture War over Religion in America.  He is a 1985 magna cum laude graduate of Notre Dame Law School and also holds a Master’s degree in theology from Notre Dame.