Ex Corde Fellowship
Kickoff Luncheon
About the Event
The Ex Corde Fellowship is a joint program of the Center for Law and the Human Person and the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition for current students at The Catholic University of America. The Ex Corde Fellowship provides students interested in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition with dedicated programming.
The Ex Corde Fellowship is open to students throughout the law school and broader University community and requires no application. The designation as an Ex Corde Fellow is awarded upon graduation to those students who participate significantly in the fellowship and formation activities offered during their time as law students.
Lunch will be provided.
Date
Time
Location
- Columbus School of Law, Room 303
Speakers
Speakers
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Chad SquitieriAssistant Professor of Law and Director of the Separation of Powers Institute, Managing Director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Columbus School of LawChad Squitieri is a leading expert in administrative law and the Constitution’s separation of powers. He serves as the Director of the Separation of Powers Institute and as a Managing Director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. He has received the Dean’s Research award, the Mirror of Justice award, and the Student Bar Association’s award for an “Outstanding” professor of evening courses. He was appointed and currently serves on the Administrative Conference of the United States (“ACUS”), which is a federal agency charged with promoting improvements in federal agency procedures.
Professor Squitieri has testified before the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. His scholarship has been cited in briefing before the Supreme Court of the United States, and his commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Politico, Fox Business, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. He joined the Catholic Law faculty after practicing law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as a member of the Appellate and Constitutional Law and Administrative Law and Regulatory practice groups. He previously served as a Special Assistant to former United States Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia, and as a law clerk to then-Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Professor Squitieri graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the Virginia Law Review, and Florida State University, where he double-majored in finance and economics.
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Elizabeth R. KirkAssistant Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law & the Human PersonElizabeth R. Kirk is an Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. Her scholarship focuses on law and the family, including issues such as parental rights, reproductive technologies, abortion jurisprudence, child welfare, and adoption. Her work has been published by the Institute for Family Studies, Humanum, Public Discourse, First Things, the Texas Review of Law & Politics, and the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy (forthcoming).
From 2018 to 2020, she served as Director and Kowalski Chair of Catholic Thought at the Institute for Faith and Culture at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas.
