A decade has passed since the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, yet his influence on American law is greater now than it has ever been. To honor this enduring legacy, last week, the American Enterprise Institute hosted a two-day symposium, “Justice Antonin Scalia’s Legacy: 10 Years Later,” led by Yuval...
Read the full article, Bruen was Right: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5122492
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On Monday, CIT Director J. Joel Alicea submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of the petitioners in the case of Wolford v. Lopez. The case examines whether Hawaii’s law, which presumptively prohibits licensed concealed carry permit holders from carrying handguns on private property open to the...
On November 21, Seton Hall Law’s Professor Brian Murray presented his forthcoming article, Liberalism, The Founding, and American Criminal Justice, at Catholic Law’s Faculty Workshop. Set to be published in the Notre Law Review in 2026, the article explores the intersection of critiques of liberalism as a political philosophy and...
11.19.2025 “What comes next for the nondelegation doctrine? In Nondelegation Without Chaos, Professor John O. McGinnis offers some characteristically insightful thoughts. In particular, he outlines obstacles standing in the way of a reinvigorated nondelegation doctrine, and offers a proposed means of overcoming them. While I agree with much of his analysis, he...
CIT Director J. Joel Alicea brought his expertise to the 2025 Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention during a panel discussion titled The Viability of Bruen: Challenges and Applications. With two forthcoming law review articles—Bruen and the Founding-Era Conception of Rights, 101 Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026), and Bruen Was...
CIT Managing Director Chad Squitieri joined CSPAN this morning, to preview the Supreme Court tariff argument with William & Mary Law Professor Jonathan Adler. Watch the full segment here.
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CIT Managing Director Chad Squitieri was featured in a Politico Magazine piece that explored the tariff powers of the President. Prof. Squitieri debated Michael McConnell, a Stanford Law professor and former judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prof. McConnell is a counsel of record for...
On October 24, Professor Daniel Epps, the Howard and Caroline Cayne Distinguished Professor of Law at WashU Law and co-host of the legal podcast Divided Argument, presented his forthcoming article, Justifying the Fourth Amendment, at Catholic Law’s Faculty Workshop. Set to be published in the Vanderbilt Law Review in 2026,...
For the fourth consecutive year, the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) opened its academic year of programming by hosting a conversation with a Supreme Court Justice. On Thursday, September 25th, CIT welcomed Justice Clarence Thomas to address faculty, students, and alumni of Catholic Law. The...
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...