Administrative Conference Appoints CIT Managing Director Chad Squitieri to the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS)
Washington, D.C., May 20, 2025 The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) today announced the appointment of nine new public members and nine new senior fellows, whose terms begin on July 1, 2025. Public Members: Senior Fellows: ACUS welcomes these distinguished new members and thanks them for volunteering their time in the service of […]
CIT Director J. Joel Alicea receives Professor of the Year Award
Congratulations to CIT Director J. Joel Alicea, who was the recipient of this year’s Professor of the Year Award at the April 25th Columbus Awards Night hosted by the Catholic Law community. This marks the second year in a row that CIT faculty have taken home the top honor—last year, CIT Senior Fellow Kevin C. […]
CIT Fellow Derek Webb receives Outstanding Professor for First Year Classes Award
CIT Fellow Derek Webb, who recently joined the faculty of Catholic Law as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2024, was awarded “Outstanding Professor of First Year Classes” at the Columbus Awards on April 25th. The Columbus Awards celebrate and honor the outstanding contributions of students, faculty, and staff to Catholic Law. Read the article […]
Professor Joel Alicea Discusses the 1935 SCOTUS Decision Humphrey’s Executor in an Interview with CBS News
Catholic Law’s Professor Joel Alicea was recently interviewed by CBS News to discuss the Supreme Court’s 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. In that case, the Court established an exception to the president’s authority to remove executive officers. The interview explored whether the Supreme Court might revisit—and potentially overturn—this nearly century-old precedent. Click here to view the […]
David French and Sarah Isgur host Advisory Opinions podcast at Catholic Law in special episode featuring CIT Director J. Joel Alicea and Judge Trevor McFadden
Popular legal podcast Advisory Opinions came to campus last week, with Sarah Isgur (Senior Editor,The Dispatch) and David French (Columnist, New York Times) hosting CIT’s own Prof. J. Joel Alicea and D.D.C. Judge Trevor McFadden for a wide-ranging, high-spirited conversation that spanned topics from the importance of law students studying originalist methodology, the meaning and fad of corpus […]
CIT Managing Director Prof. Chad Squitieri testifies before Congress
Prof. Chad Squitieri testified before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on Wednesday, December 18 on “Restoring Congressional Power over VA after Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo.” “The Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright brought about a welcome change to federal administrative law, and the decision should be celebrated for at least two reasons. First, because of the […]
CIT Managing Director Prof. Chad Squitieri’s essay, “Treating the Administrative as Law,” published in Cornell Law Review Online
“Modern separation-of-powers jurisprudence—including key decisions decided during the Supreme Court’s 2023-24 term—has been critiqued on the grounds that it constitutes “judicial aggrandizement,” i.e., that it impermissibly empowers federal courts to decide separation-of-powers questions better left to Congress and the President. This “judicial aggrandizement” critique goes too far to the extent it suggests that federal courts […]
CIT Fellow Prof. Derek Webb’s article, “The Lost History of Judicial Restraint,” published in the Notre Dame Law Review
“For over 125 years, jurists and scholars who have championed judicial restraint have looked back to James Bradley Thayer’s 1893 Harvard Law Review article, The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law, as the seminal authority for the rule that courts should presume the constitutionality of a challenged law and only invalidate it […]
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 […]