Announcing new Visiting Jurists for the 2024-2025 Academic Year
Catholic Law’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) announced today the judges who will be participating in its Visiting Jurist Program during the 2024-2025 academic year: Judge Thomas M. Hardiman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Judge S. Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]
CIT hosts inaugural event of 2024-2025: A Conversation with Justice Brett Kavanaugh Catholic Law
On Thursday, September 26th, the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) hosted a conversation with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh of the United States Supreme Court. The event, moderated by CIT Director J. Joel Alicea, and attended by faculty, students, and alumni of Catholic Law, marks the beginning of another ambitious year […]
CIT announces $7.02 million donation that establishes CIT as a Center, along with organizational updates and faculty expansion
A Permanent, Expanded Center CIT is delighted to share that we have secured a $7.02 million donation that will ensure the long-term future of CIT and allow us to convert CIT into a permanent center at the Columbus School of Law. As you might recall, the donor who gave the initial $4.25 million gift to start CIT intended that […]
Announcing new CIT Senior Fellow: Jennifer Mascott
CIT is pleased to announced that Professor Jenn Mascott will be joining the Center in the Fall as Senior Fellow. Professor 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 […]
Announcing New CIT Fellow: Derek A. Webb
CIT is pleased to announce the addition of CIT Fellow Professor Derek A. Webb. Professor 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 […]
CIT Fellow Chad Squitieri publishes Law & Liberty article exploring the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision
Immediately following the landmark Loper Bright decision, CIT Managing Director Chad Squitieri published an article entitled A Loper Bright Future for Statutory Interpretation in Law & Liberty. Prof. Squirieri writes, “The Supreme Court’s 1984 opinion in Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. was not supposed to be revolutionary. Justice John Paul Stevens, the opinion’s author, initially thought the […]
CIT’s Co-Director J. Joel Alicea cited twice in Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence for United States v. Rahimi
On Friday, June 21st, the Court released its decision on United States v. Rahimi.  CIT’s Co-Director J. Joel Alicea was cited twice in Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence—his 2019 National Affairs article with John D. Ohlendorf Against the Tiers of Constitutional Scrutiny (p. 54) and his 2023 work Practice-Based Constitutional Theories, published in the Yale Law Journal (p. 47).
CIT Fellow Chad Squitieri publishes follow-up to 2023 article on Community Financial decision
Fellow Chad Squitieri’s published What the Court Did Not Decide in Community Financial, and How That Might Prove Dispositive for Future Challenges to the CFPB’s Funding Statute in the Yale Journal on Regulation. This article is a follow-up to his 2023 article The Appropriate Appropriations Inquiry. Prof. Squitieri writes:  “The Court was careful in Community Financial to only answer the narrow Appropriations […]
CIT Co-Director J. Joel Alicea Delivers Harvard Law’s Vaughan Lecture
J. Joel Alicea, professor at Catholic Law and Co-Director of its Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, was hosted by Harvard Law School on Tuesday, April 9, to deliver the 2024 Herbert W. Vaughan Memorial Lecture. This endowed lecture series promotes and advances the core principles and doctrines of American constitutionalism. Previous Vaughan […]
CIT Announces the Judges Participating in its 2023-2024 Visiting Jurist Program
Catholic Law’s Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) announced today the judges who will be participating in its Visiting Jurist Program during the 2023-2024 academic year: Chief Judge Diane S. Sykes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]
CIT Announces the 2023-2024 Aquinas Fellows
Catholic University of America’s Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) today announced the second class of its Aquinas Fellowship, following a successful inaugural year. The Aquinas Fellowship is a program for young lawyers in the D.C. area that examines the relationship between the Catholic intellectual tradition and American constitutionalism. The program […]
CIT Announces the Inaugural Judges Participating in its Visiting Jurist Program
The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law’s Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) announced on January 23 the inaugural judges participating in its Visiting Jurist Program. The Visiting Jurist Program brings some of the nation’s most respected judges to Catholic University’s campus in Washington, D.C., to participate in the […]
CIT Announces Its Spring 2023 Speakers Program
Catholic Law’s Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) announced on January 3, 2023, its lineup of speakers for the spring 2023 semester. This will be the second semester of CIT’s speakers program, a core component of CIT. Continuing its successful model from the fall 2022 speakers program, CIT will host approximately half of […]
CIT Hosts Inaugural Lecture with Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
On September 27, 2022, the Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) hosted a special inaugural lecture by The Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Alito was named the Honorary Chair of the Advisory Council of CIT last April. Dean Stephen Payne opened the […]
The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law Announces New Endowed Faculty Chair
The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law is pleased to announce the donation of $4 million to establish a new endowed faculty chair: the Knights of Columbus Professor of Law and the Catholic Tradition. The new chair will be filled by Prof. Kevin C. Walsh, who has also joined the law school as […]
CIT Announces Fall 2022 Speakers Program
Catholic Law’s Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) announced on August 19, 2022, its lineup of speakers for the fall 2022 semester. This will be the first semester of CIT’s speakers program, a core component of CIT. As CIT has previously announced, its inaugural lecture will be delivered by Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. […]
CIT Announces Inaugural Class of Newly Launched Aquinas Fellowship
Catholic Law’s Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) announced on July 27, 2022, the inaugural class of its new Aquinas Fellowship. The Aquinas Fellowship is a program for young lawyers in the D.C. area that examines the relationship between the Catholic intellectual tradition and American constitutionalism. The program will consist of […]