J. Joel Alicea is an Associate Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law and the Director of the Law School’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. 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 focuses on constitutional theory. His scholarship has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Yale Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 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 graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University. He is a Fellow at the Columbus School of Law’s Center for Religious Liberty and a Nonresident Fellow at The American Enterprise Institute.
