J. Joel Alicea

J. Joel Alicea is an Associate Professor of Law at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America, and the Director of the Law School’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at Duke Law School and Notre Dame Law School. Prior to joining the Catholic Law faculty, Professor Alicea practiced law for several years at the law firm of Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, where he specialized in constitutional litigation. He previously served as a law clerk for Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., on the United States Supreme Court and for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professor Alicea’s scholarship has focused on constitutional theory. His scholarship has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Yale Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, and the Notre Dame Law Review, among other publications. He has also been active in public debates about constitutional law, publishing essays in journals such as City Journal and National Affairs.

Professor Alicea is a Fellow at the Columbus School of Law’s Center for Religious Liberty and a Nonresident Fellow at The American Enterprise Institute.

Professor Alicea is the recipient of the University’s Young Faculty Scholar’s Award, which recognizes “a member of the faculty for demonstrated achievement during the first four years of appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor and promise of potentially significant scholarship.” He is also the three-time recipient of the Dean’s Research Award, which is “granted to a full-time law faculty member whose research over the past year reflects the traits of top legal scholarship,” including “rigor, creativity, [and] engagement with the broader legal scholarship community.” Finally, Professor Alicea has been honored with the teaching award of “Outstanding Professor of First-Year Classes.”

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