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...

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...

“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...

“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...

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...