Lucia A. Silecchia is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law where she has taught since 1991. Professor Silecchia received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. summa cum laude from Queens College. Her areas of interest are elder law, Catholic social teaching, property and ecology.
She is an IHE Fellow and an advisory board member for the Center for Law and the Human Person. She was founding director of Catholic University’s International Human Rights Summer Law Program in Rome, taught in Catholic University’s programs at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and lectured in Lisbon, Portugal in Catholic University’s U.S.-Portuguese Law Initiative at the University of Lisbon. She has assisted the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations on issues concerning elderly persons, persons with disabilities, and ecology.
Professor Silecchia writes “On Ordinary Times,” a bi-weekly column for diocesan newspapers, and provides commentary to television, radio and print media outlets on environmental ethics, elder law, and Catholic social thought.
Her research is available here. She is admitted to the bars of New York, Connecticut, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Supreme Court.
