On October 23, 2024, at 4:30pm, in WLH 208 (WLH 208, 100 Wall St, New Haven, CT), the Buckley Institute welcomed Catholic University Columbus School of Law Associate Professor of Law Jennifer Mascott and Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Professor of Law and Religion Michael Moreland for review of the 2024 Supreme Court term, focusing on rulings on abortion, the presidency on trial, and curbing the bureaucracy.
Jennifer Mascott is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Separation of Powers Institute at the Catholic University School of Law. Professor Mascott writes and teaches in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law, the separation of powers, and federal courts. Her scholarship has been cited by the Supreme Court and published in the Stanford Law Review among a number of other publications, and she is a coauthor of the casebook Administrative Law: Cases and Materials with Aspen Publishing.
Professor Mascott served as a Supreme Court contributor for NBC News during the 2023-24 Term. She is a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and Council Member on the board of the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law Section. Professor Mascott previously served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Justice Department and as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General within the department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Professor Mascott graduated summa cum laude from the George Washington University Law School where she earned the highest cumulative graduating grade point average on record at the law school. She is a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and to then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh during his first year on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Michael P. Moreland is Villanova University Professor of Law and Religion and Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy at Villanova University. Professor Moreland joined the Villanova faculty in 2006 and served as Vice Dean from 2012 to 2015. His research is primarily in the areas of torts, law and religion, bioethics, and constitutional law, and he regularly teaches Torts, Constitutional Law, seminars in law and religion, and undergraduate courses in ethics.
Professor Moreland is the co-editor of
Christianity and Private Law (Routledge, 2021) and has published articles in leading legal, public policy, and bioethics journals.
Professor Moreland was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame and the Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture from 2015 to 2017. He was the Forbes Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in the James Madison Program during academic year 2010-11.
Professor Moreland received his BA in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, his MA and PhD in theological ethics from Boston College, and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, DC. Before coming to Villanova, he served as Associate Director for Domestic Policy at the White House under President George W. Bush.
