Meet The Leadership

Chad Squitieri

Director of the Separation of Powers Institute

Professor Chad Squitieri’s scholarship focuses on administrative law and constitutional interpretation. His scholarship has appeared in the Administrative Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, among other publications. Previously, he served as an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he was 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 for then-Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and Florida State University.

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Law Review Publications

Bringing the Antiquities Act into the Modern Age, 32 Geo. Mason L. Rev. F. 27 (2025) (SSRN)

Treating the Administrative as Law: Responding to the “Judicial Aggrandizement” Critique, 110 Cornell L. Rev. Online 1 (2024) (SSRN)

Administrative Virtues, 76 Admin. L. Rev. 599 (2024) (SSRN)

“Appropriate” Apporiations Challenges after Community Financial, Cato. S. Ct. Rev. (2024) (SSRN)

Placing Legal Context in Context, 19 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y Per Curiam 1 (2024) (SSRN)

Against Algorithmic Auer Deference, 112 Ky. L.J. 291 (2024) (SSRN)

“Recommend … Measures”: A Textualist Reformulation of the Major Questions Doctrine, 85 Baylor L. Rev. 706 (2023) (SSRN)

The Appropriate Appropriations Inquiry, 74 Fla. L. Rev. F. 1 (2023) (SSRN)

Towards Nondelegation Doctrines, 86 Mo. L. Rev. 1239 (2022) (SSRN)

Who Determines Majorness?, 44 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 403 (2021) (SSRN)

Federalism in the Algorithmic Age, 19 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 139 (2021) (SSRN)

Data Privacy and Inmate Recidivism, 102 Va. L. Rev. Online 101 (2016) (SSRN)

The Limits of the Freedom Act’s Amicus Curiae, 11 Wash. J.L. Tech. & Arts 197 (2015) (Digital Commons)

Note, Confronting Big Data: Applying the Confrontation Clause to Government Data Collection, 101 Va. L. Rev. 2011 (2015) (SSRN).

Other Publications

“Restoring Congressional Power over VA after Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo”: Hearing Before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Congressional Testimony (Dec. 18, 2024) (SSRN)

Trump’s Agencies After Chevron, American Compass (Dec. 9, 2024)

Auer after Loper Bright, Yale J. Reg. Notice & Comment (Oct. 15, 2024)

A Loper Bright Future for Statutory Interpretation, Law & Liberty (July 3, 2024)

What the Court Did Not Decide in Community Financial, and How That Might Prove Dispositive for Future Challenges to the CFPB’s Funding Statute, Yale J. Reg. Notice & Comment (May 28, 2024)

Which Appropriations Power?: Getting Back to Basics in the Supreme Court’s Upcoming CFPB Funding Case, Yale J. Reg. Notice & Comment (July 5, 2023)

Is the Administrative State a “Faithful Development”?, Law & Liberty (Jan. 9, 2023)

Major Problems with Major Questions, Law & Liberty (Sept. 6, 2022)

Can Major-Questions Doctrine Actually Get Congress to Legislate Again?, Nat’l Rev. (July 5, 2022)

Natalie Schmidt

Fellow

Natalie Schmidt is an Assistant Professor of Law at Catholic Law. Prior to joining the faculty in 2024, she practiced law at Williams & Connolly LLP, litigating complex civil cases at both the trial and appellate levels. Before that, she served as a law clerk to Judge Peter J. Phipps of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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Natalie Schmidt is an Assistant Professor of Law at Catholic Law. Prior to joining the faculty in 2024, she practiced law at Williams & Connolly LLP, litigating complex civil cases at both the trial and appellate levels. Before that, she served as a law clerk to Judge Peter J. Phipps of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Schmidt teaches and writes in the areas of election law, administrative law, and remedies. Her scholarship has appeared in the Ohio State Law Journal. She also writes on topics related to federal courts, separation of powers, and equity, with particular focus on the allocation of power between institutions federal, state, and democratic.

Professor Schmidt received her J.D. in 2022 from Harvard Law School, where she served as the Executive Submissions Editor on the Harvard Journal on Legislation. She received her B.S. from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2019.

Jennifer Mascott

Founder and Former Director of the Separation of Powers Institute

Professor Jennifer Mascott writes and teaches in the areas of Administrative Law, Federal Courts, and Separation of Powers. In addition to her role as senior fellow with Catholic Law’s CIT she is the Founder and Former Director of Catholic Law’s Separation of Powers Institute. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Supreme Court Review by the University of Chicago Press, the George Washington Law Review, the BYU Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the George Mason Law Review, among other journals. She also is a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and to then-Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, formerly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

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Law Review Publications

‘Officers’ in the Supreme Court: Lucia v. SEC (SSRN)

2022 Update to Cass, Diver, Beermann & Freeman, Administrative Law: Cases & Materials (Aspen Publishing, 8th ed. 2020) (SSRN)

Egbert v. Boule: Federal Officer Suits by Common Law (SSRN)

Gundy v. United States: Reflections on the Court and the State of the Nondelegation Doctrine (SSRN)

Nordlicht v. United States, Brief of Professor Jennifer L. Mascott as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners (SSRN)

Adjudicating in the Shadows (SSRN)

Amicus Brief of Professor Jennifer L. Mascott in Egbert v. Boule, 21-147 (SSRN)

Amicus Brief of Professor Jennifer L. Mascott in Donziger v. United States, 22-274 (SSRN)

Amicus Brief of Professor Jennifer L. Mascott in Lucia v. SEC, 17-130 (SSRN)

Constitutionally Conforming Agency Adjudication (SSRN)

Deference to Administrative Interpretations of Regulations: Auer to Kisor and Beyond (SSRN)

Early Customs Laws and Delegation (SSRN)

Executive Decisions After Arthrex (SSRN)

Independent Agencies — How Independent Is Too Independent? (Transcript of Panel Discussion, 2018 National Lawyers Convention) (SSRN)

Jurisdiction and the Supreme Court’s Orders Docket (SSRN)

Limitations on the First Amendment Right of Access to Information Controlled by the Government (Case Note) (SSRN)

Methodological Supplement to Who are ‘Officers of the United States’? (SSRN)

Oversight and Executive Privilege in the Context of Separated Powers (SSRN)

Prepared Written Testimony, Hearing Titled ‘The Administrative Procedure Act at 75: Ensuring the Rulemaking Process is Transparent, Accountable, and Effective’(SSRN)

Presidential Immunity Doctrines (SSRN)