The American Bar Association (ABA) celebrated outstanding nonprofit lawyers on May 24, 2024, in San Francisco, CA. The legal nonprofit community announced the names of the 2024 recipients of the annual “Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Awards.” The Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the ABA, Business Law Section, recognized accomplished and civic-minded nonprofit lawyers in the categories of Academic, Attorney, In-House Counsel, and Young Attorney. 

Catholic Law's Professor Roger Colinvaux was the recipient of the Outstanding Academic Award – for distinguished academic achievement in the nonprofit sector. Click here to view the press release.

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Professor Colinvaux writes about the ways the law shapes the nonprofit sector, with a focus on charitable giving laws, tax exemption, and nonprofit advocacy activity. His two most recent articles, published in the Boston College Law Review and the Loyola LA Law Review, relate to how the law, when combined with modern giving trends, is favoring donors over charitable institutions. His forthcoming work in the Illinois Law Review assesses the constitutionality of nonprofit information reporting rules. Professor Colinvaux frequently is cited by think tanks, policymakers, courts, and media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy among many others. He has testified about nonprofit tax reform before the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee and authored or coauthored amicus briefs in federal appellate litigation including Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta and American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund. He is a founding member of the Initiative to Accelerate Charitable Giving; has served on advisory boards for the Urban Institute, the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at NYU, and the Independent Sector; chaired committees for the American Association of Law Schools and the D.C. Bar; and been an expert witness in federal and state matters involving nonprofits. Prior to his Joint Committee service, he was an associate at the law firm of Arnold and Porter and law clerk for Justice Theodore R. Boehm on the Indiana Supreme Court. Professor Colinvaux received his juris doctor from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and master of letters in Politics from Oxford University.