Professor Marc O. DeGirolami — Co-Director of the Center for the Law & Human Person at Catholic Law — defends a theory of constitutional law rooted in America’s political, legal, and cultural experience. He argues that constitutional traditions transmit political excellence across time, bind citizens to one another, and strengthen the civic affection essential to a democratic republic. As trust in institutions continues to erode, DeGirolami makes the case that a traditionalist approach to the Constitution can help restore Americans’ faith in their legal institutions.
The Center for Law and the Human Person announces the theme for its Fourth Annual Spring Symposium: “Now We Know that the Law is Good”: On Law and Virtue. The symposium will take place March 26, 2026 at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. We are delighted to announce that Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law emerita at Harvard University and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, will deliver the symposium’s public keynote lecture.
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The Center for Law and the Human Person (CLHP) recently hosted its 4th Annual Spring Symposium, titled “Now We Know that the Law is Good”: On Law and Virtue, in the Walter A. Slowinski Courtroom at Catholic Law. The event opened with a warm welcome from Professor Elizabeth Kirk, Co-Director of CLHP, who reflected on the symposium’s theme of […]
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“The Comedy of Errors” is one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies, and it has all of the elements of mistaken identity, clever wordplay, and general plot nuttiness that characterize some of the better known comedies of this kind. I will confess that, speaking entirely as an amateur reader just getting into the material, I prefer the […]
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I am coming to the conclusion this week of Shakespeare’s Richard II. This is the first in the four plays concerning the rise and reign of Henry IV. It tells the story of the end of Richard’s reign and his deposition by Henry Bolingbroke (who becomes Henry IV). Richard was a terrible king–corrupt, depraved, weak–and […]
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From the Winter 2026 issue of the Catholic University magazine. by Joanne Welsh There’s an adage among gardeners to describe the growth of trees and other perennials: the first year they sleep; the second year they creep; the third year they leap. The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law (Catholic Law) has been intentionally growing […]
