The Separation of Powers Institute (SPI) is supported by a number of legal experts. SPI's Director is Professor Jennifer Mascott; the Project on Administrative Agency Structure is supported by Professor Chad Squitieri; the Separation of Powers Clinic is supported by Harry Graver and Trent McCotter; and Steven Engel co-hosts the Article I briefing series. See more below about each of these experts.

Director

Jennifer MascottProfessor 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 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.

Professor Mascott's faculty page.

 

Fellow and Director of the Project on Administrative Agency Structure

Chad SquitieriProfessor 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.

Professor Squitieri’s faculty page.

 

Affiliated Legal Experts

Trent McCotter

Trent McCotter
Partner, Boyden Gray PLLC
Director, Separation of Powers Clinic
(Former) Deputy Associate Attorney General of the United States
and Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Virgnia

 Steven Engel
The Honorable 
Steven A. Engel
Partner, Dechert LLP
(Former) Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice


Harry Graver
Harry Graver

Associate, Jones Day