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 […]
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 […]
On September 17, Catholic Law welcomed Jim Towey, Founder and CEO of Aging with Dignity, for an insightful Faith-in-Action discussion. The Faith-in-Action lecture series is an initiative of Catholic Law’s Center for Law and the Human Person. It is designed to offer students living examples of lawyers who witness to their faith through their vocation to law. In […]
Catholic Law’s Center for Law and the Human Person hosted the final installment of its 2023-2024 Faith-in-Action lecture series on Tuesday, March 19. The series, which brings Catholic lawyers to discuss the integration of the Catholic faith and legal practice, concluded with Catholic University’s deputy general counsel, Jennie Bradley Licther, who gave a talk on “Ten […]
Elizabeth Kirk, co-director of the Center for Law and the Human Person, participated in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Workshop entitled “Aquinas’ Social Ontology and Natural Law in Perspective: Insights for and from the Social Sciences.” The workshop was held from March 7-8, 2024, taking place at Fossanova Abbey, where St. Thomas Aquinas died 750 years ago, […]
The Center for Law and the Human Person, a program of The Catholic University Columbus School of Law (Catholic Law), held the spring semester’s first Faith in Action lunchtime discussion on Tuesday, February 13. Entitled “The Truth Shall Set You Free,” the event featured the Rev. Dominic Legge, O.P., a professor of dogmatic theology at the […]
The Center for Law and the Human Person at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law (Catholic Law) hosted Professor Daniel Mahoney of Assumption University for a lecture on “Freedom, Moral Purpose, and Self-Limitation: The Enduring Wisdom of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.” Following an opening prayer and brief introduction by Center co-director Elizabeth Kirk, Mahoney delivered remarks on […]
On January 4, 2024, National Council For Adoption’s (NCFA) President and CEO, Ryan Hanlon, and Catholic Law’s Elizabeth Kirk, Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person, were part of a six person panel discussion, Reproductive Justice in a Post-Dobbs World, held at the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) annual meeting. Kirk and Hanlon’s presentation focused […]
The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law is pleased to announce that Marc O. DeGirolami is joining the Law School as the inaugural St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law, a newly endowed faculty chair made possible by a generous gift from an anonymous donor. Professor DeGirolami will also serve as the Co-Director of the […]
