Professor Chad Squitieri, CIT’s Managing Director, has a forthcoming article, The Constitutionality of Inter-Branch Appointments, accepted for publication in the Vanderbilt Law Review. Drawing on the Constitution’s text, structure, and history, the article examines the constitutionality of inter-branch appointments — situations in which an actor in one branch of the...
CIT Director J. Joel Alicea, Director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Catholic Law, was part of the litigation team that filed the opening brief on Friday, August 28, in Viramontes v. Cook County, a Second and Fourteenth Amendment case the Supreme Court will...
Professor J. Joel Alicea, Director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Catholic Law, recently joined Professors Ilan Wurman and Joshua Kleinfeld on their podcast rationally BASED to discuss Viramontes v. Cook County, a Second and Fourteenth Amendment case the Supreme Court will hear this...
CIT Managing Director Chad Squitieri has been named a recurring columnist for SCOTUSblog, where he will author a regular column examining administrative law, the separation of powers, and related topics. His debut essay, “Slaughter’s Vice,” analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trump v. Slaughter, a case centered on the President’s removal...
CIT is proud to announce its fifth class of the 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 consists of eight monthly seminar-like discussions conducted by leading scholars in...
We are delighted to announce that Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Whitney Hermandorfer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will serve as CIT’s Visiting Jurists for the 2026-2027 academic year. Through the Visiting Jurist Program, Judges...
We are thrilled to share another robust calendar of fall events which bring together scholars, jurists, and public intellectuals for conversations at the intersection of law, faith, and the American constitutional tradition: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion: A Conversation with Author Luke Burgis with Luke Burgis and...
CIT Director J. Joel Alicea was quoted in a recent Fox News Digital article examining two high-stakes Supreme Court cases testing President Trump’s authority to remove federal officials. The article, titled “Trump’s firing power faces twin Supreme Court tests, but one agency may get special treatment,” analyzes the legal distinctions...
On Thursday, May 21, we gathered to honor our graduating Ex Corde Fellows at a ceremony led by Prof. Elizabeth Kirk, Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person, and Prof. Chad Squitieri, Managing Director of CIT. The celebration recognized those students whose significant participation in the fellowship’s...
On Thursday, April 9th, Catholic Law’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT), in partnership with Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government and Catholic University’s Carroll Forum for Citizenship and Public Life, concluded their symposium celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with...
On Thursday, April 9th, Catholic Law’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, together with Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government and Catholic University’s Carroll Forum for Citizenship and Public Life, co-hosted a symposium celebrating the nation’s semiquincentennial. The day brought together leading scholars and public...
As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, CIT partners with the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government (CCCG) at the University of Notre Dame and the Carroll Forum for Citizenship and Public Life at the Catholic University of America to host a major academic...
We are thrilled to announce that this Saturday, March 14, CIT Director J. Joel Alicea received the Joseph Story Award at the Federalist Society’s Annual National Student Symposium. The Joseph Story Award is given each year to a young academic (40 and under or 10 years on the tenure track...
CIT Director J. Joel Alicea served as an official commentator on an article by Joseph Blocher and Reva Siegel at the University of San Diego’s Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism’s annual Originalism Works in Progress Conference. Prof. Alicea’s remarks begin at 9:58:
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