CIT Director J. Joel Alicea was appointed to serve as Catholic Law’s Associate Dean of Faculty Research for the 2025-2026 academic year. In this role, Prof. Alicea will oversee monthly faculty workshops, designed to provide scholars with the opportunity to present papers in progress and to receive constructive feedback from the scholars in attendance. CIT is proud to co-sponsor this workshop series.
The 2025-2026 schedule is as follows:
9.26.2025
“The Hour of Death: A Case for a Closer Look at Palliative Sedation”
with Prof. Elizabeth Kirk
Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America
10.24.2025
“Justifying the Fourth Amendment”
with Prof. Daniel Epps
Washington University School of Law
11.21.2025
“Liberalism, the Founding, and American Criminal Justice”
with Prof. Brian Murray
Seton Hall Law School
12.12.2025
“The Ambitions of History and Tradition in and Beyond the Second Amendment”
with Prof. Joseph Blocher
Duke University School of Law
with Prof. Reva Siegel
Yale Law School
1.30.2026
“Machine Unlearning: Engineering Algorithms to Forgive”
with Prof. Ruth Okediji
Harvard Law School
2.27.2026
“Far More Precious: Re-Reading the Myth of Children as Property”
with Prof. Christine Gottlieb
New York University School of Law
4.24.2026
“The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies After Loper Bright”
with Prof. Matthew Stephenson
Harvard Law School