Speakers

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  Chad Squitieri Assistant 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 Law​
  

  Chad Squitieri

  Assistant 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 Law​

  Chad 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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  Marc DeGirolami St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law
  

  Marc DeGirolami

  St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law

  Marc O. DeGirolami is the inaugural St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person. His publications include The Tragedy of Religious Freedom (Harvard University Press) and articles in the Yale Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Legal Theory, and the Boston College Law Review, among others. Before joining the Columbus School of Law in 2024, he was the Cary Fields Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Mattone Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s Law School. He has also been a Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Department of Politics, as well as a Visiting Professor at Notre Dame Law School and The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. His professional experience includes service as an Assistant District Attorney in Cambridge, Massachusetts.