The second coincidence is “Double Doctor Day” (perhaps the one and only such day in the Church calendar, though I haven’t done the research to verify this. Today is not only the feast of St. Robert Bellarmine, but also St. Hildegard of Bingen. Both of these saints are Doctors of the Church. St. Robert Bellarmine was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XI in 1931. St. Hildegard of Bingen was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. What does this second coin...| CIT
Fellow Assistant Professor of Law Steven J. Lindsay writes and teaches in the areas of administrative law, legislation, federal courts, civil procedure, and evidence. He also maintains an active civil and regulatory litigation practice as Of Counsel at Torridon Law PLLC. Before joining the faculty at Catholic Law, Professor Lindsay was a partner at Kirkland […]| CIT
On July 30th, 2025, CIT Managing Director Prof. Chad Squitieri testified before the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Border Management, Federal Workforce and Regulatory Affairs to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. You can watch Prof. Squitieri’s testimony (starting at 39:50) and read the transcript at this link:https://lnkd.in/e_dnTHSk| CIT
CIT is delighted to celebrate the Senate confirmation of former Aquinas Fellow Josh Divine to the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri. Prior to his confirmation, Mr. Divine served as the Solicitor General of Missouri, overseeing the office’s appellate and special litigation divisions. Before serving as Solicitor General, Mr. […]| CIT
CIT extends its congratulations to Affiliated Fellow Jenn Mascott on her nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In announcing her nomination, President Trump wrote that Prof. Mascott is a “highly respected constitutional law professor, [who] served in the Department of Justice during [Trump’s] first term, and currently works in the […]| CIT
The end of OT 2024 at SCOTUS will call forth a variety of analyses, including the of the less helpful sort that reveal more about the analyst than the Court. Before those end-of-term reviews begin to proliferate, it is worth looking back at the excellent NYTimes op-ed by CIT Director Joel Alicea, The Supreme Court […]| CIT
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 Think."| CIT
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 testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Tuesday, June 3, during a public hearing titled “The Supposedly “Least Dangerous Branch”: District Judges v. Trump.” Both the […]| CIT
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 begin on July 1, 2025. Public Members: Senior Fellows: ACUS welcomes these distinguished new members and thanks them for volunteering their time in the service of […]| CIT
Lon Fuller’s account of the “internal morality of law” is sometimes described as a kind of “merely procedural natural law theory.” But Fuller also held that “the most important respect in which an observance of the demands of legal morality can serve the broader aims of human life generally” is something that “lies in the […]| CIT
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