On Monday, June 9th, CIT Director J. Joel Alicea was published in the New York Times with his essay, "The Supreme Court Is Divided in More Ways Than You’d ...Read More
June 4th, 2025 J. Joel Alicea, St. Robert Bellarmine Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Catholic Law ...Read More
Washington, D.C., May 20, 2025 The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) today announced the appointment of nine new public members and nine new senior fellows, whose terms ...Read More
Congratulations to CIT Director J. Joel Alicea, who was the recipient of this year's Professor of the Year Award at the April 25th Columbus Awards Night hosted by the ...Read More
CIT Fellow Derek Webb, who recently joined the faculty of Catholic Law as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2024, was awarded “Outstanding Professor of First Year Classes” at the ...Read More
Catholic Law's Professor Joel Alicea was recently interviewed by CBS News to discuss the Supreme Court's 1935 decision in Humphrey's Executor v. United States ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
“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 ...Read More
“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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
On Friday, June 21st, the Court released its decision on United States v. Rahimi. CIT’s Co-Director J. Joel Alicea was cited twice in Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence—his ...Read More
Fellow Chad Squitieri’s published What the Court Did Not Decide in Community Financial, and How That Might Prove Dispositive for Future Challenges to the CFPB’s Funding Statute in ...Read More
J. Joel Alicea, professor at Catholic Law and Co-Director of its Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, was hosted by Harvard Law School on Tuesday, April ...Read More
Catholic Law’s Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) announced today the judges who will be participating in its Visiting Jurist Program during the 2023-2024 ...Read More
