Rev. Patrick E. Reidy, C.S.C. is an associate professor of law at the Notre Dame Law School, where he also serves as a Faculty Co-Director for the Church Properties Initiative within the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate.

Father Pat teaches and writes in the areas of property law, land use, and religion. Two principal inquiries guide his research: (1) how legal institutions comprehend religion when evaluating property claims, owners, and instruments; and (2) how property doctrines and devices enable, or inhibit, religious practice. While contributing to private law theory, Father Pat also seeks to address practical questions faced by faith communities in their ownership of real and personal property. His work has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review, and Florida Law Review.

Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, Father Pat taught property as a Visiting Lecturer in Law and Fellow in Private Law at Yale Law School. He clerked for Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C., and the Honorable Thomas M. Hardiman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Father Pat is the former Rector of Keough Hall at the University of Notre Dame, where he offered chaplaincy support to Campus Ministry, the Notre Dame Law School, the Notre Dame Vision Program, and the Notre Dame Boxing Team. He serves on the University of Portland's Board of Regents