Meet The Leadership
Chad Squitieri
Director of the Separation of Powers Institute
Professor Chad Squitieri’s scholarship focuses on administrative law and the Constitution’s separation of powers. His academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review, the Alabama Law Review, and the Administrative Law Review, among other publications. He has testified before the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, and he was appointed and currently serves on the Administrative Conference of the United States—which is a federal agency charged with promoting improvements in federal agency procedures. He previously served as an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, 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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Natalie Swenson
Fellow
Natalie Swenson 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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Steven J. Lindsay
Fellow
Assistant Professor of Law Steven J. Lindsay writes and teaches in the areas of administrative law, legislation, federal courts, civil procedure, and evidence. He also maintains an active civil and regulatory litigation practice as Of Counsel at Torridon Law PLLC. Before joining the faculty at Catholic Law, Professor Lindsay was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Previously, he clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Thomas B. Griffith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and he served as a Bristow Fellow in the Solicitor General’s Office at the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Lindsay is a graduate of Yale Law School and Princeton University.
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Austin Piatt
Director of the Separation of Powers Clinic
Austin Piatt is an incoming Adjunct Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America and an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. His practice focuses on Supreme Court and appellate litigation. Before that, Austin served as a Bristow Fellow in the United States Office of the Solicitor General and a clerk for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit then Judge John B. Nalbandian of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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Jennifer Mascott
Founder and Former Director of the Separation of Powers Institute
Judge Jennifer Mascott currently serves as Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. As an academic, her work has addressed the areas of administrative and constitutional law, theories of constitutional and statutory interpretation, and the constitutional structural separation of powers. Her scholarship has been cited extensively by the Supreme Court and federal circuit and district courts and has been published or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, the Florida 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.