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Professor J. Joel Alicea’s scholarship focuses on constitutional theory. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review, and Notre Dame Law Review, among other publications. He is also active in public debates about constitutional law, publishing essays in journals such as National Affairs and City Journal. Professor Alicea clerked for Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University.
Professor Kevin C. Walsh teaches and writes in the areas of federal jurisdiction and constitutional law. His scholarship focuses on doctrines that define the scope of federal judicial power, and has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, New York University Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, and the Notre Dame Law Review, among other venues. Professor Walsh clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the University of Notre Dame, and Dartmouth College.
Professor William M. M. Kamin teaches civil procedure, federal courts, criminal law, and immigration law. His scholarship focuses on how the history of the writ of habeas corpus – as developed in early-modern England by the Court of King’s Bench – bears on contemporary American habeas jurisprudence. He also writes in the areas of federal jurisdiction, land-use regulation, and law and religion. Prior to joining the faculty at Catholic Law, Professor Kamin served as a law clerk to Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Amherst College.
Professor Jenn Mascott’s scholarship focuses on administrative and constitutional law, theories of constitutional and statutory interpretation, and the constitutional structural separation of powers. In addition to serving as a senior fellow of CIT, she directs the Separation of Powers Institute at Catholic Law, founded in 2024. Professor Mascott’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Supreme Court Review by the University of Chicago Press, and the George Washington Law Review, among other publications. She also serves as a Supreme Court contributor for NBC News. Professor Mascott clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court and for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She is a graduate of the George Washington University Law School where she earned the highest cumulative graduating GPA on record at the law school.
Professor Chad Squitieri’s scholarship focuses on administrative law and constitutional interpretation. His scholarship has appeared in the Missouri Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Previously, he served as an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he was a member of the Appellate and Constitutional Law and Administrative Law and Regulatory practice groups. He previously served as a Special Assistant to former United States Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia, and as a law clerk for then-Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and Florida State University.
Professor Derek A. Webb writes and teaches in the areas of constitutional law, federal courts, civil and criminal procedure, legal history, and American political thought. His articles have appeared in the University of Notre Dame Law Review, Law and History Review, and the American Journal of Legal History, among other publications. He served as a Supreme Court Fellow in the Office of the Counselor to Chief Justice John G. Roberts and clerked for Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D. in political theory), and Yale University.
Carol McHale is the Director of Operations for the Law School Centers. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She had a career as a computer instructor and technical writer for the Brookings Institution as well as being an adjunct faculty member at Strayer University and Northern Virginia Community College before she became a full time mother for her 8 children. After being home for 20 years, she returned to work at The Catholic University of America.
Camden White is the Associate Director for the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. He recently graduated from the University of Notre Dame, majoring in Political Science and minoring in Theology as well as Constitutional Studies. During his undergraduate studies, he was a Sorin Fellow at the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, served on the March for Life organization team, participated in Club Boxing, and spent some time in the Navy ROTC program as a Marine Option.
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