Catholic University Law Professor 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 […]