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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...